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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.
Breaks from medication at weekends or over the summer are a tool for a particular problem, usually growth, rather than something everyone ought to be doing. Where growth is fine, a holiday tends to cost more than it gains.
The days without medicine are not neutral days. They are often the days with more accidents, more falling out with people, and more of the shame that…
You may hear that staying on stimulant medication for years can shift the structure of the brain itself, not only the day. It is a real line of research and it is still an open question, so hold it lightly.
The work points at a handful of regions involved in attention and movement, and at a minority of people who stayed on treatment for several years.…
When you pass on the long term brain findings to a family, call it a hypothesis out loud. The study that would settle it, years of random assignment to a real drug or a dummy one, could not ethically be run.
So the honest sentence is something like: this pattern keeps turning up, we do not know which drug or dose or for how long, and some researchers…
Nobody asks whether you believe in insulin. The language of belief has attached itself to ADHD medication, which happens to be among the more heavily tested treatments in medicine, so the useful question is what the testing found.
This is not a way of saying your worries do not count. Side effects, cost, how you feel about giving a child a drug: all of that is real and worth…
There is more about focus, starting, and adhd than the practices: the focus, starting, and adhd area has the themes and the courses too.