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How long you have · Twenty minutes
A minute 1Five minutes 3Twenty minutes 2Longer 1
Who it is written for
A practitioner 2Someone I care about 1Me 1
Where you are right now
Coping, mostly 1Struggling right now 1
On your own, or with someone
Involves someone else 1Both of us together 1
Theme · Getting assessed and diagnosed
Systems for daily life 4Feelings and focus 3Moving your body 3Screens and attention 3Shame 3Your nervous system 2The cost of avoiding 2Choosing your response 2Staying regulated in conflict 2Cool the body first 2Food, caffeine and fuel 2Emotions as signals 2Letting it out safely 2Getting assessed and diagnosed 2Reading, numbers and learning differences 2Anger, alcohol and the body 1What worry does 1Treatment and medication 1Tolerate distress 1Shame and stigma 1Remembering to do it 1Exercise, food and other supports 1Medication and how it works 1Making it stick 1Get started 1Facing it a step at a time 1Equanimity and perspective 1Being seen and judged 1Answering bids 1
When · Under stress
Any ordinary day 10Coming and going 4Under stress 2In a change 1

Attention and impulse problems that appear for the first time in middle age or later are not ADHD arriving late. They need a doctor to look, not a prescription.

Several conditions affecting the frontal lobes can show up first as new disinhibition, poor judgement or a change in personality, and some are…

Twenty minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 21:7

Ask for the most frightening moment of their life, then the next one down, then the next, until there is a scale running from one to a hundred. You get the ladder you needed, and they get something they did not expect: fear comes in sizes.

Do it slowly and write it in their words rather than yours. Most people arrive believing anxiety is one solid block that either has hold of them or…

Twenty minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 21:83

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