Coaching practices for Schizophrenia in the Workplace What Reasonable Accommodations Could the Afflicted Ask for

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• The people close to me can’t see how little I have left, so every time I need to beg off something I’m bracing for a whole exhausting explanation or the look that says I’m flaking
• I’ve told my people a hundred times they can disagree with me, but they still don’t
• When I quietly decline meetings to protect my focus time it comes across as me being unavailable or standoffish, and I keep having to re-negotiate it one request at a time
• Someone on my team is clearly going through something heavy and I’ve just been carrying on talking deliverables like nothing’s wrong
• I keep dropping problems on my boss’s desk and waiting for them to tell me what to do, and I can feel it reads as me not owning my work

Practices that may help

1. Communicate your spoon count to people who need to know
   Give people close to you a shorthand for your available capacity, so they can adjust expectations without requiring a medical explanation each time.
   Spoon Theory, Made Practical
2. Teach speak-up skills, not just encourage speaking up
   Give team members specific language for raising concerns, not just permission to raise them.
   Psychological Safety in Teams
3. Communicate your schedule mode to collaborators
   Tell your team when you are in maker mode and what that means for response times.
   Maker vs Manager Schedule
4. Show up for the person, not just the deliverable
   Acknowledge what is happening in someone’s life when it is clearly affecting them — before addressing the work.
   Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor
5. Bring a proposed solution when you bring a problem
   Describe the problem and your recommended path before asking for a decision.
   Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
6. Send proactive, brief status updates
   Update your manager on important work before they ask — in the format and frequency they actually want.
   Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
7. Handling external interruptions
   Use the inform–negotiate–schedule–call-back protocol to protect the sprint.
   The Pomodoro Technique, Made Practical
8. Modify the environment to reduce sensory aversion
   The context in which you do a task is part of its aversiveness — change the container.
   Task Aversion and Procrastination
9. Counteract occupational sitting with deliberate after-hours NEAT
   Desk workers who add deliberate after-hours walking substantially reduce the mortality risk associated with prolonged occupational sitting.
   NEAT Thermogenesis
10. Track and communicate sensory sensitivity changes during SSP
    Monitoring sensory reactivity across sessions gives the clinician the data to pace the protocol safely.
    The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP): What It Is and What the Evidence Shows

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