Orestis Zavlis

ADHD, Boredom Proneness, and the Pills That Make Tedium Tolerable Exploring the relationship between ADHD and boredom

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

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 Insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology

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

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For an exposé, see the:

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www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/either-all...

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Hi Josh! Thanks for sharing this. I guess as Aidan already replied to the piece, the trait model still has not coherent definition of PDs. If you'd like to provide a definition, I'd be happy to talk more. But as it stands trait definitions fail all empirical and logical tests.

Personality Disorders as Relational Disorders Insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology

@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

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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.

A screengrab from Twitter. HeatherLhaney @heather_l... asks: “Why do you think we have so many more kids with Autism” David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS quotetweets this reply: “Probably for the same reason there are so many more planets in outer space now than there were before the telescope was invented”

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

ALT TEXT: A political cartoon by Ben Jennings (dated 13.03.2025) depicts a disabled parking enforcement officer issuing a fine to a small grey car parked in a designated blue badge holder space. The car has a valid blue badge displayed, yet a penalty charge notice is stuck to its windshield. Meanwhile, a bright red sports car with the number plate “W3A L7H” is parked in the adjacent disabled bay without a blue badge, but it goes entirely unchallenged by the officer. The background features a brick wall with a “Blue Badge Holders Only” sign. The cartoon highlights hypocrisy in enforcement, suggesting disabled people face unfair scrutiny while those with power or privilege are ignored.

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 »

The current official HiTOP model - a hierarchy of dimensional psychopathology constructs ranging in breadth from superspectra at the top down to individual signs, symptoms, and maladaptive behaviours at the bottom (as well as a list of disorders and related constructs that are linked to the subfactors and spectra)

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

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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)
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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!

Open letter of psychologists and neuroscientists for peace in the Middle East We, psychologists and neuroscientists from around the world, call the international community to urgently put pressure towards an immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine and Lebanon, to demand that t...

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.

This highlights a pressing need for more clinical research in this line of inquiry. Personally, I think this can only be achieved when we appreciate PD for what it actually is: a relational disorder.

Pressing need for clinical trial research on dimensional personality disorder A decade has passed since the introduction of dimensional diagnostic systems for personality disorder.1 However, national health guidelines (such as those from the UK's National Institute of Clinical ...

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 💬

Omid V. Ebrahimi presenting at Magdalen College, University of Oxford.

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.