Practices

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If you are being assessed for attention, say something about your mood and your worry as well, even if nobody asks.

Anxiety and low mood sit alongside ADHD often enough that a thorough assessment will go looking for them anyway. But shame is quiet, and years of…

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'I set a reminder and still did not do it' is not a story about a bad reminder. It tells you the missing piece was never information, and a bigger, louder version of the same thing will fail in the same way.

The reflex is to escalate: three alarms, a different app, an entire new system built on Sunday night. What is needed is a change of kind, something…

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There is a difference between low mood you have carried all your life and low mood that grew out of years of working twice as hard for half the result. Both are real, and they need treating in a different order.

If the second describes you, the picture often lifts a fair way once the attention difficulties are being managed and the daily experience of falling…

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Not all distraction comes from outside. Some of it is a thought that will not leave, circling while you read the same paragraph four times.

That difference matters at an assessment. Being pulled away by everything in the room, and being held in place by an intrusive thought you cannot put…

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Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.

Breathing

Treatment and medication

Shame

Getting assessed and diagnosed

Feeling from the inside

Feelings and focus

When you use something to cope

Being seen and judged

Treatment and medication

What worry does

Practising under provocation

Bringing the future closer

Making it stick

Question the thought

Structure and routine

Exercise, food and other supports

Breaking the worry loop

Letting it out safely

Remembering to do it

Emotions as signals

Growing empathy

Posture and how you carry yourself

Self-compassion

Living with uncertainty

What you are actually defending

When you go numb

Facing it a step at a time

When anger turns to harm

Reading, numbers and learning differences

Righteous anger and perfectionism

Use your strengths

The cost of avoiding

Anger, alcohol and the body

Panic and the body

Rest and pacing

One line of research

Eating that runs away from you, and eating you cannot stop once it has started, turn up alongside ADHD more than people expect. Usually it is doing a job rather than proving a weakness.

The pattern leans towards bingeing rather than restricting, which fits: it belongs with the difficulty of stopping something already in motion. Often…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 12:53One line of research

Trouble with eating, and with how your body looks, gets missed far more often in men. The questionnaires and the expectations behind them were built around women.

In men it runs more towards size and muscle than towards thinness, and towards fixing on one part of the body that everybody else says looks…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 17:70One line of research

Very sweet, very salty, very fatty food acts on the reward system in a way that has more in common with a drug than with dinner. Reaching for it when you are flat is self-medication, not greed.

Knowing that changes what you do about it. Counting calories and resolving to try harder both aim at willpower, which was never the mechanism in the…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 39:53One line of research

With gambling machines the pull may be the lights and the noise as much as the chance of winning. That changes what you actually need to stay away from.

If the sensory buzz is doing the work, the triggers are not only the betting shop. They are the phone games built with the same flashing and chiming,…

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Time management is only the fit between tasks and the hours you have: planning them against time, then doing them against time. It is a skill with parts, not a verdict on what kind of person you are.

Most people arrive having already decided they are lazy, and that decision is doing them no good at all. Describing it mechanically gives you both…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 49:13One line of research