Areas › Focus, starting, and ADHD › Self-compassion

Nothing here does the job on its own. Medication if it suits you, a few practical systems, something for the low mood and shame that has built up, and the people you live with brought into it.

The practical layer is the easiest to describe and the first to fall over, because whether you use a system at all depends on how you feel about yourself and how things are going at home. The tools themselves can be scruffy. A note on the back of an envelope counts as much as an expensive app. What matters is that the emotional and relational parts are not left out, since they decide whether the rest ever gets used.

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