Practices

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How long you have · A minute

A minute 25 Five minutes 111Twenty minutes 30 Longer 11

Who it is written for

A practitioner 24 Me 23 Someone I care about 14

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 18 Getting ready for something 5 Struggling right now 2

On your own, or with someone

On my own 16 Involves someone else 7 Both of us together 2

Theme · Medication and how it works

Staying regulated in conflict 46 The moment before you snap 39 Choosing your response 36 Cool the body first 34 Grounding and settling 28 What anger actually is 26 Medication and how it works 25 Your nervous system 25 Systems for daily life 24 Bringing the future closer 22 The fear underneath anger 22 Answering bids 22 Get started 20 Treatment and medication 18 Your sense of time 17 Equanimity and perspective 17 Structure and routine 16 Fondness and admiration 15 Practising under provocation 14 Growing empathy 14 Making it stick 14 Knowing your partner 14 Affection and touch 14 Repair after rupture 13 Touch and bodywork 13 Feelings and focus 12 Getting assessed and diagnosed 11 Food, caffeine and fuel 11 Moving your body 9 Breathing 9 Exercise, food and other supports 9 The cost of avoiding 9 When everything feels flat 9 Gratitude 9 Tolerate distress 8 Treatment and medication 8 What ADHD actually is 8 Listening and understanding 8 Being seen and judged 8 Remembering to do it 7 Screens and attention 7 Shared spiritual life 6 Rituals of connection 6 What worry does 6 Shame and stigma 6 What you are actually defending 6 Feeling from the inside 5 Rebuilding trust 5 Posture and how you carry yourself 5 Shame 5 Emotions as signals 5 Question the thought 4 Self-compassion 4 Obsessions and compulsions 3 When you use something to cope 3 Facing it a step at a time 3 Name what you feel 3 Safety and grounding 3 When anger turns to harm 2 Notice the pattern and flex 2 Panic and the body 2 Patience and trust 2 Meaning after harm 2 Ride the urge 2 Righteous anger and perfectionism 2 Let the wave come 2 Reading, numbers and learning differences 2 Validate yourself and others 2 Hold a boundary 2 Working with anger 2 Breaking the worry loop 2 Your worth is not conditional 2 Calm the body 2 Face it gently 1 Letting it out safely 1 Get it out of your head 1 Help someone grieving 1 Your window of tolerance 1 Care for yourself in loss 1 When you go numb 1 Keep the bond 1 Listen to the body 1 Rest and pacing 1 Ask and say no well 1 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 Act on your values 1

Approach

Medical and treatment 21 ADHD skills 4

When

Any ordinary day 22 In a change 2 Under stress 1

The line about not cutting, crushing or chewing a long acting medicine is a safety instruction with a real mechanism behind it. Break the coating and the whole day's dose arrives in one go.

People sometimes crush a capsule because swallowing is genuinely hard, not because they are misusing it, so ask before assuming. There are usually…

A minuteMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 20:81

Long acting stimulants are the usual starting point for a plain reason: they cover the most hours and they remove the lunchtime dose, which is the dose ADHD is most likely to swallow whole.

Remembering a tablet in the middle of a busy day is itself an executive task, so asking for it is asking the person to do the thing they came for…

A minuteMedication and how it worksADHD skillsQur’an 2:286

The most useful question about a dose is whether the person can tell. A shrug and 'I think it sort of helps a bit' usually means it is not yet doing its job.

At a dose that suits them, most people can say when it comes on, what the middle of the day feels like, and when it leaves. Vagueness points…

A minuteMedication and how it worksADHD skillsQur’an 53:28

Half the useful health information arrives sideways. Someone says 'I am so tired' on the way into another subject, and that is an opening worth taking gently.

People rarely bring sleep or food to a session as a topic, because they do not file them as symptoms. So the tiredness, the skipped meals and the…

A minuteMedication and how it worksADHD skillsQur’an 21:83

Count good days, not unbroken runs. Whatever yesterday was, brilliant or a write off, the only live question is what can be done with today.

Streaks make one slip cost everything, so the missed night turns into a missed week and then the whole effort gets quietly dropped. Aiming for more…

A minuteMedication and how it worksADHD skillsQur’an 39:53

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