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

7 practices

Treatment and medication Twenty minutes Coping, mostly Clear all

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 4 Five minutes 20 Twenty minutes 7 Longer 8

Who it is written for

A practitioner 7 Me 6 Someone I care about 4 My husband or wife 1

Where you are right now · Coping, mostly

Getting ready for something 7 Coping, mostly 7 Struggling right now 5

On your own, or with someone

On my own 4 Involves someone else 2 Both of us together 1

Theme · Treatment and medication

Systems for daily life 21 Medication and how it works 19 Moving your body 17 Get started 11 Getting assessed and diagnosed 11 The cost of avoiding 11 Screens and attention 10 Touch and bodywork 8 Your nervous system 8 Feelings and focus 7 Shared spiritual life 7 Treatment and medication 7 What anger actually is 6 Food, caffeine and fuel 5 What ADHD actually is 5 Bringing the future closer 5 Staying regulated in conflict 5 The moment before you snap 5 Exercise, food and other supports 5 Breaking the worry loop 5 Righteous anger and perfectionism 4 The fear underneath anger 4 Growing empathy 4 Grounding and settling 4 When everything feels flat 4 Repair after rupture 4 When anger turns to harm 4 Rituals of connection 4 Making it stick 3 Knowing your partner 3 Rebuilding trust 3 Reading, numbers and learning differences 3 Breathing 3 Your sense of time 3 Emotions as signals 3 Structure and routine 3 Anger, alcohol and the body 2 Shame and stigma 2 Use your strengths 2 What worry does 2 Feeling from the inside 2 Equanimity and perspective 2 When you use something to cope 2 Cool the body first 2 Answering bids 2 Rest and pacing 1 Keep the bond 1 Choosing your response 1 Facing it a step at a time 1 Care for yourself in loss 1 Safety and grounding 1 Treatment and medication 1 Tolerate distress 1 Posture and how you carry yourself 1 Obsessions and compulsions 1 Listen to the body 1 Practising under provocation 1 Remembering to do it 1

Approach

Medical and treatment 3 CBT 2 Core 1 ADHD skills 1

Two ideas will let you judge most claims for yourself. In a good trial nobody involved knows who got the real treatment, and a study of five people can be swung by one of them having a good month.

Researchers want their treatment to work, and that hope leaks into how they rate what they see, which is why the person handing out the pill and the…

Twenty minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 17:36

Programmes built on crossing the midline or on balance and inner ear work do not appear to beat ordinary exercise. If movement is what you are after, movement is available free.

These packages come with a theory about why they work, and the theory is usually where the confidence comes from rather than from the results. What…

Twenty minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 22:78

A ramp does nothing for someone's legs, and it gets them into the building. Timers, visible clocks, a shorter task list and a calendar somebody else keeps do the same job here.

Accommodations are not treatment and they are not pretending to be. What they do is take the parts of the work that live inside a person's head,…

Twenty minutesTreatment and medicationADHD skillsQur’an 4:28

One social approach does have a real evidence base behind it, and what makes it different is who delivers it. Parents do the coaching, in the middle of actual play with actual friends.

In practice it looks small and ordinary. You set up a play date, you stay within earshot, you give a nudge before things tip over, and afterwards you…

Twenty minutesTreatment and medicationCoreQur’an 13:11

Coaching for adult ADHD comes down mostly to one thing: a standing appointment with somebody who will ask how it went. That sounds thin until you have tried keeping a plan alive entirely on your own.

A coach is not a therapist and does not need to be. They hold the horizon you keep losing and the fortnight that has quietly gone by, and they make…

Twenty minutesTreatment and medicationCBTQur’an 42:38

Mindfulness for adult ADHD is promising and thinly researched at the same time. If it helps you, that is worth having. It is simply not yet in the same bracket as medication or practical therapy.

There are only a handful of studies, mostly small, and few of them set mindfulness against another active treatment rather than against not much.…

Twenty minutesTreatment and medicationCBTQur’an 17:36

Sleep, food and movement will not cure anything, but they lengthen the fuse. Bad moments still arrive, and you handle them differently when your body is not already running on empty.

This matters more here than it sounds, because ADHD tends to wreck exactly these three and then the wreckage feeds back into the flare ups. Late…

Twenty minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 4:28

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