What if we stopped calling it 'borderline personality disorder' and started calling it what it often is: survival patterns from unmet needs, trauma, misrecognition and rejection.
#TraumaNotPD
#TraumaNotPD
December 23, 2024 at 8:36 AM
What if we stopped calling it 'borderline personality disorder' and started calling it what it often is: survival patterns from unmet needs, trauma, misrecognition and rejection.
#TraumaNotPD
#TraumaNotPD
#TraumaNotPD
September 21, 2023 at 2:16 PM
#TraumaNotPD
Emotional collapse in disagreements is proportional to a history of not being heard rather than unstable personality structure. #TraumaNotPD #AutismNotPD #ADHDNotPD
June 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Emotional collapse in disagreements is proportional to a history of not being heard rather than unstable personality structure. #TraumaNotPD #AutismNotPD #ADHDNotPD
What people see and judge as our personalities is often just the armour built from past trauma, shielding who we really are.
#TraumaNotPD
#TraumaNotPD
November 9, 2024 at 7:26 AM
What people see and judge as our personalities is often just the armour built from past trauma, shielding who we really are.
#TraumaNotPD
#TraumaNotPD
No one should be told that they have a disordered personality. #TraumaNotPD
November 22, 2024 at 11:44 AM
No one should be told that they have a disordered personality. #TraumaNotPD
I am not against diagnosis full stop.
I am against diagnosis that:
- character assassinate
- result in the 'withdrawal of warmth'
- block needed admissions
- enable offrolling
- silence trauma
- hide neurodivergence
- lack scientific credibility
- repeat trauma
#HumanNotPD
#MadSky
#TraumaNotPD
I am against diagnosis that:
- character assassinate
- result in the 'withdrawal of warmth'
- block needed admissions
- enable offrolling
- silence trauma
- hide neurodivergence
- lack scientific credibility
- repeat trauma
#HumanNotPD
#MadSky
#TraumaNotPD
October 20, 2023 at 5:02 PM
I am not against diagnosis full stop.
I am against diagnosis that:
- character assassinate
- result in the 'withdrawal of warmth'
- block needed admissions
- enable offrolling
- silence trauma
- hide neurodivergence
- lack scientific credibility
- repeat trauma
#HumanNotPD
#MadSky
#TraumaNotPD
I am against diagnosis that:
- character assassinate
- result in the 'withdrawal of warmth'
- block needed admissions
- enable offrolling
- silence trauma
- hide neurodivergence
- lack scientific credibility
- repeat trauma
#HumanNotPD
#MadSky
#TraumaNotPD
Great to be in Norwich with NSFT co-presenting
@ptm-framework.bsky.social
With @jomayr.bsky.social & Dr Lucy Johnstone
#PTMFramework #TraumaNotPD
@ptm-framework.bsky.social
With @jomayr.bsky.social & Dr Lucy Johnstone
#PTMFramework #TraumaNotPD
March 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Great to be in Norwich with NSFT co-presenting
@ptm-framework.bsky.social
With @jomayr.bsky.social & Dr Lucy Johnstone
#PTMFramework #TraumaNotPD
@ptm-framework.bsky.social
With @jomayr.bsky.social & Dr Lucy Johnstone
#PTMFramework #TraumaNotPD
Telling someone who has and is surviving #CSA or sexual abuse that their personality is disordered, is wrong and unethical. #TraumaNotPD
This diagnosis is like a red flag to all mental health and social care workers - it means we are hated and suspected before we even get near a service.
This diagnosis is like a red flag to all mental health and social care workers - it means we are hated and suspected before we even get near a service.
November 27, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Telling someone who has and is surviving #CSA or sexual abuse that their personality is disordered, is wrong and unethical. #TraumaNotPD
This diagnosis is like a red flag to all mental health and social care workers - it means we are hated and suspected before we even get near a service.
This diagnosis is like a red flag to all mental health and social care workers - it means we are hated and suspected before we even get near a service.
I totally understand that receiving a diagnosis can feel validating - it just doesn’t need to be one that comes with so much prejudice and stigma thrown in #bpd #eupd #traumanotpd
Just shared this elsewhere so to make my Bluesky “sharing nonsense” debut, here it is! (And for the first time in a while maybe people will see it!) #bpd #eupd
www.beamconsultancy.co.uk/the-blog/202...
www.beamconsultancy.co.uk/the-blog/202...
Why You Don't Want A Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder — Beam Consultancy
Who the hell am I to say this? Well, I’ve worked in mental health services for over 25 years. The last 10 have been in services specifically for people who hurt themselves and want to die. ...
www.beamconsultancy.co.uk
November 20, 2024 at 5:57 PM
I totally understand that receiving a diagnosis can feel validating - it just doesn’t need to be one that comes with so much prejudice and stigma thrown in #bpd #eupd #traumanotpd
"as childhood trauma increases, borderline personality disorder will also increase" its almost as if #TraumaNotPD
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Frontiers | Prediction of borderline personality disorder based on childhood trauma with the mediating role of experiential avoidance
IntroductionTraits of borderline personality disorder are important for the determination of the prognosis of mental illnesses and in evaluating risks of neg...
www.frontiersin.org
December 4, 2024 at 4:46 PM
"as childhood trauma increases, borderline personality disorder will also increase" its almost as if #TraumaNotPD
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
January 24, 2026 at 8:44 PM
TW: Suicide
I’m grateful that, thanks to the brill @georgejulian.bsky.social, Morgan’s inquest is receiving so much awareness. But I also know of multiple—and I mean multiple—inquests that have happened or are about to start this year. I truly can’t overstate the scale of this crisis. #TraumaNotPD
I’m grateful that, thanks to the brill @georgejulian.bsky.social, Morgan’s inquest is receiving so much awareness. But I also know of multiple—and I mean multiple—inquests that have happened or are about to start this year. I truly can’t overstate the scale of this crisis. #TraumaNotPD
November 23, 2024 at 12:01 PM
TW: Suicide
I’m grateful that, thanks to the brill @georgejulian.bsky.social, Morgan’s inquest is receiving so much awareness. But I also know of multiple—and I mean multiple—inquests that have happened or are about to start this year. I truly can’t overstate the scale of this crisis. #TraumaNotPD
I’m grateful that, thanks to the brill @georgejulian.bsky.social, Morgan’s inquest is receiving so much awareness. But I also know of multiple—and I mean multiple—inquests that have happened or are about to start this year. I truly can’t overstate the scale of this crisis. #TraumaNotPD
@jendaffin.bsky.social such an important talk today expanding on research conducted by Platform.
Trauma is STILL not asked about
When it is, it’s often denied or belittled.
The diagnosis is used as a way to gatekeep care and deny services.
It creates chronic dismissal and structural denial.
Trauma is STILL not asked about
When it is, it’s often denied or belittled.
The diagnosis is used as a way to gatekeep care and deny services.
It creates chronic dismissal and structural denial.
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
A thoughtful and compassionate discussion about the combined impact of bullying / peer rejection and parental neglect.
#cptsd #traumanotpd
youtu.be/OW08NoTQI1c?...
#cptsd #traumanotpd
youtu.be/OW08NoTQI1c?...
Avoidant Personality Disorder Deep Dive w/ Dr. Honda, @PsychologyInSeattle
YouTube video by HealthyGamerGG
youtu.be
October 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
A thoughtful and compassionate discussion about the combined impact of bullying / peer rejection and parental neglect.
#cptsd #traumanotpd
youtu.be/OW08NoTQI1c?...
#cptsd #traumanotpd
youtu.be/OW08NoTQI1c?...
I made a #MadSky feed for people migrating over from #MadTwitter to hopefully find one another. Currently only a feed based on those two hashtags plus #PDinTheBin and #TraumaNotPD
Can edit and add more hashtags, keywords and key users as we (hopefully?) grow
Search MadSky in the feeds to join
Can edit and add more hashtags, keywords and key users as we (hopefully?) grow
Search MadSky in the feeds to join
Feeds are a thing here instead of hashtags, I find them really helpful blueskyfeeds.com/en (I've never made one, just follow other peoples)
September 20, 2023 at 7:40 PM
I made a #MadSky feed for people migrating over from #MadTwitter to hopefully find one another. Currently only a feed based on those two hashtags plus #PDinTheBin and #TraumaNotPD
Can edit and add more hashtags, keywords and key users as we (hopefully?) grow
Search MadSky in the feeds to join
Can edit and add more hashtags, keywords and key users as we (hopefully?) grow
Search MadSky in the feeds to join
There is no mental health system.
It is corrupt and broken.
I don’t know how anyone in the ‘system’ or anyone in power thinks that this can be okay?
#traumanotpd #madchat #eupd #suicide #mentalhealth
It is corrupt and broken.
I don’t know how anyone in the ‘system’ or anyone in power thinks that this can be okay?
#traumanotpd #madchat #eupd #suicide #mentalhealth
November 23, 2024 at 5:44 PM
There is no mental health system.
It is corrupt and broken.
I don’t know how anyone in the ‘system’ or anyone in power thinks that this can be okay?
#traumanotpd #madchat #eupd #suicide #mentalhealth
It is corrupt and broken.
I don’t know how anyone in the ‘system’ or anyone in power thinks that this can be okay?
#traumanotpd #madchat #eupd #suicide #mentalhealth
1 in 4 women screens positive for a 'personality disorder' in young adulthood, yet this rate halves in later years. Attributing these profound difficulties to 'personality'—a supposedly lifelong trait—not only contradicts the data but reflects a misogynistic framing.
#TraumaNotPD 1/5
#TraumaNotPD 1/5
November 10, 2024 at 7:35 AM
1 in 4 women screens positive for a 'personality disorder' in young adulthood, yet this rate halves in later years. Attributing these profound difficulties to 'personality'—a supposedly lifelong trait—not only contradicts the data but reflects a misogynistic framing.
#TraumaNotPD 1/5
#TraumaNotPD 1/5
November 21, 2024 at 5:37 PM
If you are a clinician who still utilises this diagnosis, please reflect on the system you are upholding, the people you are protecting, and the very real power those few little letters hold over the lives & dignity of survivors.
#TraumaNotPD
#PDinTheBin
8/8
#TraumaNotPD
#PDinTheBin
8/8
February 9, 2026 at 6:20 PM
If you are a clinician who still utilises this diagnosis, please reflect on the system you are upholding, the people you are protecting, and the very real power those few little letters hold over the lives & dignity of survivors.
#TraumaNotPD
#PDinTheBin
8/8
#TraumaNotPD
#PDinTheBin
8/8
Hello, are there any other #MadTwitter #MadBlueSky people here...?
Or anyone posting about #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #TraumaNotPD #Disability #Inclusion?
I'd also take new pottery/craft-y connections?!
Or anyone posting about #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #TraumaNotPD #Disability #Inclusion?
I'd also take new pottery/craft-y connections?!
July 28, 2023 at 11:05 AM
Hello, are there any other #MadTwitter #MadBlueSky people here...?
Or anyone posting about #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #TraumaNotPD #Disability #Inclusion?
I'd also take new pottery/craft-y connections?!
Or anyone posting about #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #TraumaNotPD #Disability #Inclusion?
I'd also take new pottery/craft-y connections?!
Note the sex difference entirely levels out when periods finish. It is very clear that PD = trauma/neurodivergence x hormonal cyclicity intepreted through a deply misogynistic framework to character assassinate women and queer folk.
2/5 #TraumaNotPD
2/5 #TraumaNotPD
November 10, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Note the sex difference entirely levels out when periods finish. It is very clear that PD = trauma/neurodivergence x hormonal cyclicity intepreted through a deply misogynistic framework to character assassinate women and queer folk.
2/5 #TraumaNotPD
2/5 #TraumaNotPD
this whole widespread discourse about bpd on the bird app really is quite unfortunate to witness when you're on the side of #TraumaNotPD
obviously i want to speak against all the negative comments being made about people with bpd but i also totally disagree with the existence of the bpd diagnosis
obviously i want to speak against all the negative comments being made about people with bpd but i also totally disagree with the existence of the bpd diagnosis
December 17, 2024 at 9:42 PM
this whole widespread discourse about bpd on the bird app really is quite unfortunate to witness when you're on the side of #TraumaNotPD
obviously i want to speak against all the negative comments being made about people with bpd but i also totally disagree with the existence of the bpd diagnosis
obviously i want to speak against all the negative comments being made about people with bpd but i also totally disagree with the existence of the bpd diagnosis
As someone who has campaigned for years to get people with a #LearningDisability and #Autistic people out of inappropriate incarceration, it was galling to hear two psychiatrists this week claim people "shouldn't be treated in hospital" #IntentionallyMissingThePoint #TraumaNotPD #NotFullyHuman
November 23, 2024 at 5:15 PM
As someone who has campaigned for years to get people with a #LearningDisability and #Autistic people out of inappropriate incarceration, it was galling to hear two psychiatrists this week claim people "shouldn't be treated in hospital" #IntentionallyMissingThePoint #TraumaNotPD #NotFullyHuman
I find it 'interesting' that, at this moment in history, we have predominantly white male professors insisting that telling young people (or anyone) they have a 'personality disorder' is beneficial—despite countless generations of female and queer survivors saying otherwise.
#TraumaNotPD 3/5
#TraumaNotPD 3/5
November 10, 2024 at 7:37 AM
I find it 'interesting' that, at this moment in history, we have predominantly white male professors insisting that telling young people (or anyone) they have a 'personality disorder' is beneficial—despite countless generations of female and queer survivors saying otherwise.
#TraumaNotPD 3/5
#TraumaNotPD 3/5