Practices

Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.

Narrowed down

6 practices

Medication and how it works Coping, mostly In a change Clear all

How long you have

Five minutes 3 Twenty minutes 3

Who it is written for

A practitioner 6 Me 5 Someone I care about 4

Where you are right now · Coping, mostly

Getting ready for something 7 Coping, mostly 6 Struggling right now 2

On your own, or with someone

On my own 3 Both of us together 2 Involves someone else 1

Theme · Medication and how it works

Medication and how it works 6 When everything feels flat 4 Moving your body 4 The cost of avoiding 3 Being seen and judged 2 What anger actually is 2 What ADHD actually is 2 Self-compassion 2 Getting assessed and diagnosed 2 Bringing the future closer 2 Your nervous system 2 Systems for daily life 1 Get started 1 Touch and bodywork 1 Structure and routine 1 Your sense of time 1 Equanimity and perspective 1

When · In a change

Any ordinary day 97 In a change 6 Under stress 1

When you are weighing up whether a teenager is ready for something, it helps to think in two thirds. A fifteen year old may be handling responsibility more like a twelve or thirteen year old.

This is not an insult and it should never be delivered as one. It is a way of explaining why a privilege arrives later here than for their friends,…

Five minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:286

Skipping weekends, holidays and summers is a common suggestion and mostly it is the wrong call. The difficulty does not take a holiday when school does.

Unstructured time asks more of planning and self-regulation rather than less: whole days to fill, everyone at home, no timetable holding the shape of…

Five minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 13:28

Two products can hold the identical molecule and still behave differently in a person, because the difference lives in how fast the drug is released. A change of formulation is a real change, and it is a different thing from a change of drug.

The release pattern sets how high the level climbs, how quickly it gets there, and how long it holds. For stimulants that decides whether cover…

Five minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 20:114

If you take a prescribed stimulant and your workplace tests, sort the paperwork before anyone asks. A labelled bottle and a short letter from your prescriber turn an alarming result into a filing matter.

Prescribed amphetamine shows up on a standard screen as amphetamine, because that is what it is. The test cannot tell the pharmacy from anything…

Twenty minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 12:67

Some settings simply suit an attention difficulty better. Expectations set out minute by minute, consequences that arrive the same day, a visible ladder to climb: military life often fits for exactly those reasons.

The point carries well beyond the army. When you are helping someone choose work, ask what the day actually looks like rather than what the job is…

Twenty minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:185

Stopping medication rises sharply in the early teenage years. If that is where you are, it helps to know this is the usual pattern rather than a sign that something has gone wrong with your child.

The pull is understandable: wanting to be in charge of your own body, hating being the one who is different, and a parent no longer standing over the…

Twenty minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 3:159

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