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As someone actually trained in behavioural psychology—unlike most MPs—I can tell you: financial precarity doesn’t “incentivise” sick people to work. It breaks them. Stress worsens health. Fear doesn’t create productivity. It creates collapse. #TakingThePIP

New from the brilliant @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The 'Avoiding Avoidance' TrapHow Britain's Welfare Policy Weaponizes Therapy.substack.com

Thank you for this @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social "the real avoidance isn’t on the part of those struggling to survive. It’s governmental: the avoidance of the real, the avoidance of the structural, and—most crucially—the cynical avoidance of justice." substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The 'Avoiding Avoidance' TrapHow Britain's Welfare Policy Weaponizes Therapy.substack.com

This needs shouting from the rooftops "the real avoidance isn’t on the part of those struggling to survive. It’s governmental: the avoidance of the real, the avoidance of the structural, and—most crucially—the cynical avoidance of justice."

Incredible article, dissembling the Governments floored Welfare plans by leading Psychotherapist and Activist @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The 'Avoiding Avoidance' TrapHow Britain's Welfare Policy Weaponizes Therapy.substack.com

The DWP have absolutely no place in a GP surgery, or anywhere people access healthcare, health-related support, mental health support. Many people who claim disability benefit experience a hyper-vigilance over the DWP 'checking up' on them, and it is not unfounded. People avoid things

Can’t believe this needs saying in 2025 but: Human rights are good for humans.

The folk shouting about “protecting women and girls” as they form gangs are the very same who, in another century, would have lit the pyres for any woman even vaguely deviant — branding her a witch and burning her alive. Groupthink and violence has always worn the mask of virtue.

The Centre for Social Justice has just released a report called ‘Wasted Lives’ which is being picked up by the media and recommends withdrawing: “UC Health and PIP from those with milder anxiety, depression or ADHD, equivalent to around 1.1 million people”. Why is this wrong? 🧵

If folk are so keen on ‘protecting women and girls’, how about campaigning on the conviction rate for reported rape which is 2%?

I can’t tell you how many parents’ MENTAL HEALTH problems are CAUSED and EXACERBATED by the pressure of trying to get any—let alone decent—SEND SUPPORT. If the GOVERNMENT want to reduce DIAGNOSIS, they should make SEND FUNDING easier and more RELIABLE to get, not CUT it.

Dear @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Having to publish three impact assessments — none of which would pass GCSE level scrutiny — because you got thrashed by the disability movement is not “extensive” impact assessment. Nor was dropping the PIP changes. Stop lying to the United Nations. Dr Jay

Please read our paper out now about the resistance, repurposing and reimagining of oppressive mental health technologies, such as Oxevision (now LIO), used on us against our will. And how we must dream them differently.