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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.
Decide at the start what you are actually aiming at. Eight difficulties down to six, then to four, then perhaps to two. Never zero, because zero was never on offer.
Everybody has some of these traits, and ADHD is largely inherited, so a life with none of it was never a realistic target for anyone. Naming a number…
Hear this before you start rather than after: change here is gradual. Habits built over twenty years do not come apart in three weeks.
Waiting is genuinely harder with ADHD, and a treatment whose reward is months away is exactly the sort of thing that gets dropped in week five.…
Everything has side effects, including doing nothing. The only real question is whether what you gain outweighs what it costs you.
The conversation about medication often gets set up as a risky drug against a safe natural alternative, and that is not the choice anyone is actually…
What a person expects from a treatment genuinely changes what they get from it. That is not a trick to be exploited, and it is not nothing either.
In some trials the dummy treatment helps around half the people who receive it, and there is work showing benefit even when people were told outright…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
The point of explaining ADHD to a parent is to produce a particular kind of parent: one who is kind about it, quick to forgive the day's failures, and willing to make a nuisance of themselves at school.
Those three are results, not manners. Harsh days breed pushing back, pushing back breeds harsher days, and that loop is the main road from ADHD to a…