Breaking news: all my nieces and nephews yesterday agreed genuinely that I look like I'm 16 years old, then decided to randomly inform me of this. They are ages 11, 9 (x2), 17, and (And as of yesterday, 1 day old). Honestly, true. I'm 29. 🫠

It's BPD awareness month! Time to speak over individuals with lived experience and post inspiration porn and overly simplified recovery ideals to make everyone else feel good (except for the people actually affected)!

"The majority of those at risk have functional limitations that would make compliance genuinely difficult, yet they don't meet formal disability criteria that would exempt them," said an author of a study looking into who will be impacted by Medicaid work reqs. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

Loving the Chuck Norris jokes on my feed. We lost an icon. Grateful to master Norris for shaping my path. Chuck Norris trained psychologist Dr. Carter when they served together in the Air Force. Dr. Carter trained master Chad. Chad then trained me to 2nd degree black belt & introduced me to #DBT.

Perhaps one of the most beatiful things in life is there is always something new to learn. To read. To try. To do. And just be there

Sometimes you just have to acknowledge you absolutely not been treated right

There are pros and cons to social media, of course. One con is that people sometimes think they know everything you’re talking about from a few lines of text; topics that warrant complexity are instead interpreted through the reader’s own filter and assumptions.

Supremely talented doctoral student Halle Fowler is hoping to put together an ABCT panel related to Deaf and Hard of Hearing suicide prevention or mental health. We have multiple qualitative and quantitative studies on DHH interpretation in mental health settings. We need help finding panelists!

This action very much has a precedent rooted in ableism.

Just spent like 15 mins trying to login to my college library, and began to feel frustrated because it wouldn't work. Turns out I need to select "faculty login" instead of "student login" ........... 😐😅😬

1) A few thoughts about facial expressions. They are essential signals in Deaf culture. They are not rude, exaggerated, or passive. They are essential for communication. I have often been told I am very expressive with my face.

Please folks, mentally ill people do not need you comparing Trump or anyone in his administration to us today! We're just trying to catch our breath.

Now published… We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

And that's a wrap for my first semester as an adjunct professor. Blessed with a wonderful, thoughtful group of students who are going to do great things. Also kind of sad the semester is over. But very excited for next semester!

Finally teaching the personality disorder sections.. so beyond disappointed with the textbook and company slides. There's a whole lot of cringe worthy content readily open for student misunderstanding. Also "BPD is really CPTSD" is in the book/slides. How lovely.

Don't assume something is true about any subject here just because someone *sounds* authoritative or reasonable. I'm finding more and more that if you really analyze some posts, on the left, too, they don't make any sense. It's just someone whose been in their own head too long.

You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was. You made a difference—so much of a difference. Rest always in peace, and always in power.

I really think people need to be careful about cryptomnesia and/or passing off ideas/thoughts as their own when taken from conversing with people in lived experience spaces. It's problematic and happens. It creates power imbalances, hurts trust in communities, strips away meaning and origins, and

Flight home from ISSPD was the coolest flight ever @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social @michaelle.bsky.social (and not just because the three of us happened to be on it..) Even if a little delayed.. we flew straight through the aurora borealis. I have always wanted to see them 😍 So close, visible, unreal 🩵

Thrilled to share a new paper in @jamapsychiatry.com on path asymmetry in complex dynamic systems of psychopathology! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳

Thinking about how poor disabled and aging people may be impacted this is a multitude of ways–they may not be able to get food, and their care workers may not either (for those who have them), leading to less good support for disabled folks as starving people don't make the best workers.

Interesting new special issue in Psychological Assessment. Edited by Kristin Naragon-Gainey and @kstanton.bsky.social Here's their overview paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... And here's our contribution, which will win us no friends: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

NASSPD is accepting submissions for our 2026 conference in Toronto, April 24-25th! See nasspd.org/conference for conference information and submission portal. Talks (individual, symposia, data blitz) and clinical workshops due Nov 1st. Posters due Dec 1st. Hope to see you there!

Guess whaaat you can save posts on bluesky now. Idk when this change was made. For all I know I'm late to the game

I don’t post much here, but I’m so thankful for the Yale UPLiFT Lab.. their radical genuineness, opportunity, support, and community have shaped my growth and perseverance. It was an honor to be invited to speak about research at Yale’s recent Psychology Systems event.

I go on long mindfulness walks almost every day. Today, a lady who lives off the trail gave me sunflowers from her garden. She said she see's me stop along the trail to look at her flowers sometimes. Random act of kindness almost brought me to tears on a hard (but skillful) day.

Bluesky just never really did catch on the same did it? Tis boring

It’s #TraineeTuesday! Meet Kellyann Navarre, an Adjunct Psychology Professor at Michigan’s MCCC and a researcher with the Yale UPLiFT Lab and University of Toronto. Her work focuses on personality disorders and real-time outcomes like suicidality, NSSI, and emotion

dysregulation—particularly through an idiographic lens on identity and interpersonal processes in BPD. Kellyann also studies stigma, barriers to care, and DBT. Follow along @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social and learn more about their work on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kellyann-...

"We are talking about stigma with BPD for this paper because xyz." *proceeds with citations, examples, quotes" Reviewer: "But what about other disorders? Depression is stigmatized too! Why don't you talk about that! Also these examples are probably just misinterpretations"

1) Studying something like BPD, personality disorders, w other focuses on stigma too is hard bc literally no matter what you do, sometimes people get offended, fail to see the relevance of pd work, & then take it out on you, and it's way harder to get your work out there.

WHAT A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO PRACTICE THE STOP SKILL! THANK YOU! I am ice ice baby

1) Life update! This fall, I’m thrilled to take on the role of Adjunct Psychology Professor! Returning to where my academic journey began, Michigan’s Monroe County Community College. The place & people who once helped me piece myself together are welcoming me back once more, full-circle.🎉🐺

I've heard "you're over qualified" so many times over the past 1-2 years that I'm starting to wonder if any of them ever considered how, as a visibly disabled, AFAB genderqueer, Deaf/HoH person etc, I've always had to be overqualified in life just to be given the slightest chance at ANYTHING.

I have the best friends and community ever. I am so beyond overwhelmed with support, connection, and gratitude as I learn to live my life again. I love everyone who’s chosen to walk with me in this life, in any way, at any time, in their own way. Especially now, as I find my way back.

The P/PD SIG's diversity travel award is 🌟LIVE 🌟This award is intended to defray travel costs associated with attending the upcoming @abctnow.bsky.social conference in New Orleans.

🗓 Deadline: Sept 29, 2025 @ 11:59 PM EST 🔗 Info + Application: sites.google.com/view/ppdiver... 📩 Submit to @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social : [email protected]

1) So grateful to share I’ve received a substantial travel award to participate in the Rare Disease Family Event in Novato, right by San Francisco. It covers nearly 100% of flight, hotel, transportation & meals! 🎉😭 This national event is hosted by the EveryLife Foundation @everylifeorg.bsky.social

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

If you care anything about treatment accessibility, esp DBT and are a clinician, and you voted for Trump and support this nonsense, You don't actually care anything about treatment accessibility. Please stop preaching about treatment accessibility. It is laughably hypocritical at this point.

On this July 4, liberate the field from cross-sectional “mediation analysis” - check out this new paper discussing an alternative. I bet it’s an instant classic. My sense is that folks continue bad practices bc they don’t know what else to do. This solves that psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

NOW THIS LOOKS LIKE A FUN WAY TO CELEBRATE! 🤩 #DogsOfBlueSky

"An absolute moral failure." Around one in three disabled people are on Medicaid. I spoke to disability advocates about how devastated they are that the House passed the budget bill that will slash close to a trillion from Medicaid at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

🚨 Exciting news from our Diversity Task Force! 🚨 We now have a dedicated website highlighting our mission, initiatives, events, and the Diversity Travel Award (opening July 15th!) Learn more, donate, and stay updated: sites.google.com/view/ppdiver...

Seeing on IG that Patty Berne, co-founder & artistic director of the disability justice-based movement & performance project Sins Invalid, “joined the ancestors on May 29, 2025.” Berne was a brilliant practitioner of disability justice & their passing is a huge loss. RIP Patty Berne. sinsinvalid.org

I remember at the time I was writing my undergraduate honor thesis, whenever that was, thinking it was bad. I'm now looking back at it after my masters degree many years later and genuinely impressed with the level of writing, the level of thinking, and that an undergraduate did something like that.

This already happened to Ohio. Anyway, disability studies major is no longer a thing at UT

I think I rip both my nose piercings out in my sleep or something because twice in the last week, I have woken up with them missing. And those things do *not* fall out easy. I cannot find them ANYWHERE in my room. What in the world?!

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.