Operational sequence
- Collect multi-year records and the person’s own chronology.
- Mark mood episodes and psychosis outside them.
- Record competence, work, relationships, and recovery as carefully as impairment.
- Verify harassment or surveillance on its own evidence track.
- Leave the formulation provisional when the timeline is incomplete.
Failure states
- Diagnosing from one dramatic statement
- Treating negative symptoms as laziness
- Assuming organized work rules out psychosis
- Archiving errors without revision