📜 Our new preregistered 36-month longitudinal study, investigating the mechanisms underlying adverse anxious symptom change patterns, and their long-term clinical outcomes, is now out. Very excited to share after years of data collection & work on MS osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵 @edgelab.bsky.social

New post: Personality disorders are not about personality traits: orestiszavlis.substack.com/p/personalit...

ADHD, Boredom Proneness, and the Pills That Make Tedium Tolerable www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/adhd-bored...

Machinery of Misbelief A psychiatrist tackles the psychology of false beliefs in the misinformation age My review of Joe Pierre’s ( @psychunseen.bsky.social ) book “False” (OUP, 2025) www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/machinery-...

Reposting for the Monday crowd 👇🏽

“We are made by relationships. Most meaning, as well as suffering, is found in relationships. Our entire sense of self only makes sense within the context of relationships.” @orestiszavlis.bsky.social 👇🏽

Personality Disorders as Relational Disorders A guest post by @orestiszavlis.bsky.social on a new generative model and insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/personalit...

@awaisaftab.bsky.social Thanks for posting this interesting Substack on personality disordered- definitely a new paradigm , via computational psychiatry. open.substack.com/pub/awaisaft...

“… the idea that there is a general latent entity, ‘personality,’ that causes difficulties in self-relating and other-relating. In my eyes, this idea is both empirically and conceptually untenable…” @orestiszavlis.bsky.social 👇🏽

How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies? Examined in a massive EMA study (N = 3,761), our new #OpenAccess piece on this is just out: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky 🧵:

How does where we live – urban, rural, or in-between – relate to our mental health? 🌆🏞️ In this cross-national study, we investigate the links between urbanicity, anxiety and depressive disorders in 500,000 adults across the UK, Norway, and New Zealand 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

RFK Jr. says he wants the “gold standard” of science so he used AI to write his error-riddled MAHA disinformation report. I guess he should have used Au instead.

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

New: Labour plans to cut disability benefits instead of imposing a wealth tax. Ben Jennings’ cartoon nails it. A government that fines disabled people while letting the rich park wherever they want—both literally and politically.

First, we provide evidence that increasing public support for redistributive policy (the CTC) across racial/ethnic and partisan lines is possible with well-designed messages that center shared values, describe policy efficacy, and include a call to collective action.

Super happy to share on HAL (open access) our @bmj.com paper « Fragile promise of psychedelics in psychiatry »

Can you help me build a list of things that are (or might be) wrong in the current HiTOP model while I'm sick and recovering on the couch? Some of my top hunches are: -My PhD was wrong (☹️) and low sexual function shouldn’t be neatly nested under internalizing 1/2

Happy to share that our (Vera Du, @jdmiller.bsky.social, & @drlynam.bsky.social) paper, “Reactive and Proactive Aggression in Daily Life: An Exploratory ESM Study”, has been officially published in Aggressive Behavior and is now available open access. (1/n) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

How does where we live – urban, rural, or in-between – relate to our mental health? 🌆🏞️ In this cross-country study, we investigate the links between urbanicity, anxiety and depressive disorders in 500,000 adults across the UK, Norway, and New Zealand 🧵 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Can be read without shuddering. Best review so far….

New preprint!

Psychologists and neuroscientists are calling for international pressure towards immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine & Lebanon, respect for international humanitarian law, end of the occupation, and release of all hostages. Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter

Pressing need for clinical trial research on dimensional personality disorder: http://osf.io/ur5qy/

I just want to say for the record that I am not against preregistration. I understand the usefulness of registration for a priori hypothesis testing. I support any measures for improving our science.

Very happy to share our new scoping review at Lancet Psychiatry, showing that in the past decade *only 3* clinical trials were conducted on dimensional personality disorder: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I think one of the things I found so frustrating about Morgan’s story is how professionals completely ignored the idea that a PD is supposed to be a consistent pattern of behaviour, and labeled her based off how she acted in a crisis. I have a lot to say about this bc I see it too often 💬

It was a pleasure to give a talk about Global Crises and their impact on Mental Health and Behaviour at @magdalenoxford.bsky.social @universityofoxford.bsky.social yesterday. Really enjoyed the discussions and the clever questions that interdisciplinary environments stimulate.

TW: suicide Why I will never call an NHS crisis line again: "I ain't going to coroner's court for you & neither will your therapist, the trust, or the ambulance service. You have capacity". Then she (NHS rapid response service) hung up the phone on me. This was seconds after a suicide attempt.

Diversify your sources of self-worth… don’t just rely on one social media platform for validation, use multiple! 🙃

As a first post to Bluesky, I'd like to share some of our most recent and hopeful work that formalizes (static) personality disorders as (dynamic) relational disorders: osf.io/preprints/ps...