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Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻

@kellyannnavarre.bsky.social

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Clinical Psych MA. Psych+Disability Studies UT & CSU Alum. PD ABCT Diversity Task Force Chair. The word you're looking for is Disabled #POTS #BPD #Fibro #BiInSci🌈 She/They

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Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · Dec 11

Excited to share my first first-author publication, now available open access! Most research on BPD stigma focuses on mental healthcare contexts—but what about physical healthcare? How might stigma manifest and be experienced on that level? Read it here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

“You sure she's not making this up?”: A qualitative investigation of stigma toward adults with borderline personality disorder in physical healthcare settings

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with pervasive stigma that contributes to several consequences, such as inaccessible and inadequate healthcare. Existing literature concerning the ....

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Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · 5d

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

Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · 14d

WOW. Plus I have several friends who already prepped for their application. So upsetting. Do you know if people already awarded will lose it early?

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Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · 14d

Is this different from their usual exclusion? Eg people in clinical psych programs could apply, it just needed to be non therapy focused and submitted under another area eg developmental?
So now anyone in clinical psych can't apply at all?
(Genuinely clarifying, information overload at the moment!)

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Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · 17d

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.

Me standing in front of a yale backdrop and next to a cardboard cutout of the yale dog mascot

Me and Emily standing in front of a yale backdrop and next to a cardboard cutout of the yale dog mascot

Me and Emily standing for our research talk by the mic

Stuffed animal panda wearing a yale t shirt at the bookstore

Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · Sep 6

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.

Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · Aug 30

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

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ABCT Personality/Personality Disorder SIG @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

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ABCT Personality/Personality Disorder SIG @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social · Aug 26

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-...

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Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · Aug 24

Or when people get mad when LGBTQ+ mental health is talked about because "ALL people have mental health!" Or "what about OTHER minorities too??" 🙄 We can't even talk about legitimate things anymore without some ppl acting like we need to write a whole book about every possible related issue lol

Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · Aug 24

Very thoughtful point! Yes indeed. I also think on a fundamental level it's an issue with someone's line of thinking. It's like not being able to hold a suicide prevention fundraiser without someone getting mad about it because there's "other issues TOO!"

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Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · Aug 23

wat
Can we like not be that way
Ok last post, I'm good lol

Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · Aug 23

"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"

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Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · Aug 23

6) if we don't give enough examples, they claim it didn't actually happen and doesn't actually happen. If we do, with direct quotes and plenty of evidence, they STILL claim it doesn't actually happen. Something tells me the problem isn't lack of "evidence"

Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · Aug 23

5) why are we talking about PD stigma when other disorders are also stigmatized? We literally talked about that.
Why did you give examples of stigma when it doesn't seem like something they would actually say so you must have just have just misunderstood or misrepresented :)

Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · Aug 23

4) They also pulled one of these out somehow too??? Yall im tired. I hate poor critical thinking mixed with condescending tones and some laziness disguised as "academic rigor." Something tells me you don't get responses like this as frequently when you're in other lines of work.

Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · Aug 23

3) true and too bold of a claim to be making.
This field sometimes, I swear. not to mention, I'm a trainee and I have no mentorship aside from several collaborations I do. So it's harder to figure out next steps and handling it. The dynamics when you're in this role IS different.

Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · Aug 23

2) The latest example involves a reviewer trying to tell us that several stigmatizing examples that we cited, word for a word from sources, didn't really exist or "must have been" misrepresented and out of context because it was "too unethical" to be

Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · Aug 23

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.

Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · Aug 23

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

Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · Aug 19

2) I couldn’t be more grateful or excited. My return to campus was emotional, filled with paperwork, a warm welcome, conversations with people who actually care about me & have long been part of my path, & the surreal feeling of stepping back into the place where it all began.

Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · Aug 19

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.🎉🐺

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Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · Aug 8

congratulations!!

Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · Aug 6

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.

Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻 @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social · Jul 25

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.

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ABCT Personality/Personality Disorder SIG @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social · Jul 22

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.

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