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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.
Eating and body image are part of this for more people than you would think. Forgetting meals all day and then eating without stopping in the evening is a very ordinary ADHD pattern rather than a separate failing.
The useful move is usually to eat by the clock rather than by hunger, since the signal arrives late or not at all when you are absorbed. Put one…
Keep two or three trustworthy places to read about ADHD and go there first. Confident, tidy explanations online are easy to find, and most of them have nobody checking them.
Look for organisations that cite their sources and say when something is uncertain, and treat a personal account as a personal account rather than as…
ADHD tends to surface at the points where life asks for more organising: a new school year with seven teachers, the first term at university, a first job, a promotion into managing other people.
The pattern is always the same. Something that was holding things together is removed, or the amount you have to run yourself goes up, and what was…
Girls get diagnosed later, and a good deal of the reason is social. A boy who plays the fool gets laughed with, while a girl who does the same is corrected by her friends within a week, so she goes quiet and disappears from view.
Referral usually follows disruption rather than difficulty, so anything that keeps a child quiet also keeps her unassessed. The point it finally…
There is more about focus, starting, and adhd than the practices: the focus, starting, and adhd area has the themes and the courses too.