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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.
If you have not been assessed because of money, waiting lists or simply getting to appointments, that is a barrier and not a lack of seriousness on your part.
The loop is unkind: the difficulties themselves make earning and organising harder, and that makes assessment and treatment harder to reach. Before…
Plenty of adults with ADHD grew up being called lazy, difficult or naughty, and some were punished in ways nobody would allow now. That history usually needs saying out loud, because it left a belief behind.
The belief tends to sound like: there is something wrong with me and people will find out. It shows up as bracing for criticism, or hearing an…
Making a child repeat a year rarely fixes what went wrong. The same lessons without different support tend to produce the same result, plus the sting of being the oldest in the room.
If a year has gone badly, the useful questions are what support was missing and whether something else, such as an unrecognised learning difficulty,…
ADHD is not only about focus. Physical health tends to drift down the list, and appointments, sleep, food and movement are exactly the sort of thing this condition makes hard to keep up with.
Pick one health task you have been putting off and make it small and dated: book the check-up, refill the prescription, put a walk in the diary with…
There is more about focus, starting, and adhd than the practices: the focus, starting, and adhd area has the themes and the courses too.