Practices

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Smoking runs high in ADHD, and nicotine genuinely does something for attention. It helps to treat that as self-medication rather than as one more impulsive habit.

It changes what a conversation about stopping looks like. If a cigarette is doing a job, taking it away and leaving the job undone is a plan that…

Twenty minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 39:53One line of research

One question is worth asking before choosing between products: which part of the day actually goes wrong? Bead type capsules tend to give more early on, while the pump type keeps more back for the afternoon.

Two products can hold the same molecule and cover the same number of hours, and still fit one person and not another, because of where the strongest…

Twenty minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 42:38One line of research

When appetite disappears at lunchtime, work with the child's rhythm instead of against it. Feed them properly at the hours they are actually hungry, which is usually breakfast and then the late afternoon and evening.

What counts over a week is the total, not whether it arrived at the socially correct hour. A decent breakfast before the medicine takes hold, a light…

Twenty minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 7:32One line of research

If the medication question is the one burning a hole in your pocket, try holding it until last on purpose. Heard after everything else, the answer lands differently.

Most people arrive wanting to know about tablets and nothing else, and the risk in that is a plan made only of tablets. Sleep, movement, the shape of…

Twenty minutesMedication and how it works

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

Remembering to do it

Breaking the worry loop

When you use something to cope

What you are actually defending

Making it stick

Cool the body first

Growing empathy

The moment before you snap

Feelings and focus

Facing it a step at a time

Righteous anger and perfectionism

Choosing your response

Self-compassion

Anger, alcohol and the body

Use your strengths

When everything feels flat

Emotions as signals

Shame

Tolerate distress

Being seen and judged

Obsessions and compulsions

When anger turns to harm

Touch and bodywork

Practising under provocation

Question the thought

Getting assessed and diagnosed

Rest and pacing

Feeling from the inside

Medical and treatment

Qur’an 3:159

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Mechanism is a moving thing, so it is easier to watch than to read. A university made animation of what happens at the junction will teach you more in ten minutes than a page of description.

Prefer something made by a university or a public body over whatever a search puts at the top, since much of what is written about these drugs is…

Twenty minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 49:6One line of research

A child who has spent years being told they are careless will often say yes to whoever finally seems glad of them. Work on how they see themselves is not a soft extra to the clinical work.

Count the corrections in a single day and it is easy to see what accumulates. By the time an offer comes from someone friendly, the pull is belonging…

LongerMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 39:53One line of research

If the first medicine disappoints, that is information about the first medicine. Plenty of people who get nothing from one class do well on another.

Methylphenidate and amphetamine are not the same drug at different strengths. They work by partly different routes, so a poor result on one says…

LongerMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 94:5One line of research

If the word exercise makes you flinch, drop it. Say moving about, or getting out, and see whether a plan turns up.

For a lot of people that word carries school changing rooms and years of not keeping things up. Swap it and the list of things that count grows:…

A minuteMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 20:53One line of research

Missing a day is not the end of the programme. You missed a day. Tomorrow you carry on.

The dangerous part is not the missed session, it is the story that follows it, the one where you have blown it so you may as well stop altogether.…

A minuteMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 30:54One line of research

When you reach a goal, stop and let yourself register it before moving on to the next one. Otherwise you collect achievements and never feel any of them.

The pause can be tiny. Say out loud what you did, tell someone, sit with it for a minute, thank God for it. Racing straight on to the next target…

A minuteMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 28:24One line of research

When you need to correct one person, say it to the room. Everyone gets the instruction and nobody gets the sting.

Good instructors do this without thinking: they see one child dropping their guard and say that everybody needs to keep their hands up. The teaching…

A minuteMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 31:19One line of research

A silent room is not restful for everybody. If every cough and creaking knee pulls at you, ask for music or bring headphones with something plain in them.

Too little going on can be as unsettling as too much. A low steady sound covers the sudden little noises that keep snagging your attention. Some…

A minuteMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 32:9One line of research

When someone describes a day like that, do not answer with a lecture on living better. Say that this is hard, and that you find parts of it hard too.

They have heard the virtue speech many times already and it has never once helped. Admitting that you also struggle to exercise, or to keep up with…

A minuteMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 25:63One line of research

Notice one thing your body is telling you right now. Thirsty, needing the loo, shoulders up somewhere near your ears. That noticing is a skill and it does come back with use.

Long stretches of stress teach you to override the body's signals until you stop hearing them at all. Then hunger, tiredness and the early edge of…

A minuteMoving your bodyBody basedQur’an 32:9One line of research

Five minutes of moving about sharpens concentration enough to notice. You do not need a session, you need a lap of the building.

Before a task you have been avoiding, get the blood going for five minutes. Stairs, a brisk walk to the end of the road, star jumps in the kitchen if…

Five minutesMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 71:20One line of research

It does not have to be one block. Ten minutes here and ten there add up to the same total, and they are far easier to get.

An hour set aside is an hour that one interruption can swallow. Bits scattered through the day survive better and they break up the sitting, which is…

Five minutesMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 12:47One line of research

Nobody sits down at a piano and plays Mozart the first afternoon. Set the bar at this week rather than at the finished version of yourself.

The stretch between starting and being any good is where most attempts die, because the reward sits a long way off and today feels like nothing.…

Five minutesMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 53:39One line of research

Give yourself an hour rather than a fortnight. A short window creates the pressure that gets a thing started, where a long one quietly fills up with everything else.

Two weeks of notice usually means the work happens in the last few hours anyway, with all the dread in between. So set a smaller box on purpose:…

Five minutesMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 9:105One line of research

When a child starts martial arts and their maths marks go up, the maths did not improve. Their attention did, and timed maths tests measure attention as much as arithmetic.

It is worth being clear about this, because the wrong reading sends people looking for a movement class that teaches numbers. What actually changed…

Five minutesMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 22:46One line of research

End a session with a few minutes of sitting still. The styles that close with quiet seem to help most with the pause before reacting.

That pause is the couple of seconds in which you get to decide whether something is a good idea. It is trainable, and stillness right after exertion…

Five minutesMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 25:63One line of research