The Labour Government’s DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper is brutally damaging people’s mental health. Below is one such testimony. If you want to share yours, in confidence, please email
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I get DWP specific nightmares and insomnia waking up at 3am.
Typically my nightmares involve the police and DWP using a battering ram to break into my home at 6am, dragging me off in handcuffs because of a malicious complaint.
Or long range cameras photographing me in my kitchen, or undercover operatives in Sainsbury’s.
My most recent nightmare involved an old GP ringing me up (his voice was spot on), with DWP, insisting I had to start a mandatory work programme, being interrogated on what I do during the day and demanding to know if I could get on a bus, and if I could it would mean I would lose all entitlement.
When I woke up it took me a couple of hours to work out that this hadn’t happened. I had to look at my phone record, check to see if I had messaged anyone. Initially I still wasn’t sure, maybe I just hadn’t rung anyone yet?
It took time to sink in, it was another nightmare.
My nightmares now match my reaction to DWP envelopes – nausea, actual vomiting, lasting panic and anxiety.
Recovery in the Bin 