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Dr Jay Watts

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Consultant psychotherapist/ disability activist/ bluestocking. Former Lived Experience Worker, future failed poet. Will question ideology for cake ❤️ 🥄🎭

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1May 17, '25The Daily Mail has released this thing where you put your postcode in and it says what percentage of people don't speak english in your area. That is absolutely abhorrent and a cle148×1.9M21k2.5k1.2k
2Dec 25, '24Just a reminder: you are NOT unusual, weird, or unlovable if you have: - no one to see on Christmas Day, - no presents, or - no contactable relatives. Very few people live the idea84.6×1.1M30k3.7k1.3k
3Oct 3, '24Half of London has this bug where they feel really nauseous and unwell for about a week, not hungry, weak and shivery. No cold. Negative for Covid. Anyone got any idea what this is79.6×1M3.5k478778
4Sep 6, '25“Your own GP is almost pressurised to put you on the disability register”. Er, what? There is no national register of people with disabilities. Even local registers have literally 31.2×410k10k1.7k247
5Apr 6, '24Suicidal ideation IS sometimes a communication in that the communication is 'I am suicidal, help me before this is inevitable'. The communication is not 'look at me' in the way it 31.2×409k7.9k1.5k876
6Mar 11, '25If you’re suicidal about benefits changes, please remember nothing can change at all soon: 📞 Samaritans – 116 123 (24/7) 📞 CALM - 0800 58 58 58 (5pm-12) 📞 Mind – 0300 123 3393 (29.1×383k3.3k2k227
7Dec 2, '24£35k in benefits? #Dispatches misrepresents life on benefits. Only happens rarely with severe disability (max PIP), children, and living in an unusually high-cost rental area. Most28.3×371k7k1.3k149
8Mar 18, '25The 4 points in one PIP component rule is a calculated tactic to reduce mental health and neurodivergent claimants. I see so many with high needs who don’t hit 4 in one area—so the23.4×307k5.6k1.3k278
9Jun 20, '25Lisa Nandy is either lying or has grossly misunderstood what her constitutents are saying here. PIP is NOT an out-of-work benefits. 1 in 5 people on PIP are in work. Noone on PIP W23.2×305k4.6k1.3k142
10Oct 2, '23"Time to withhold benefits from those who won’t look for work", Jeremy Hunt will declare today. As a consultant clinical psychologist, can I say clearly the government has been doi22×289k5.7k1.6k64
11Mar 15, '25The Times reports people will only be eligible for PIP if they score at least 4 points ***in a single activity***. This specifically discriminates against people with mental illnes20.9×274k3.3k841281
12Jun 25, '25Brilliant. Martin Lewis destroying the defence minister. ‘Minister can I interrupt you. You keep talking about getting people into work… but PIP is not an out-of-work benefit. I do20.7×272k6.7k1.7k295
13Apr 19, '24PIP has nothing to do with employment. PIP is for moderate to severe disability and it is v difficult to qualify for. It is not something one can blag. I research this. Sunak's ide19.4×255k5.3k1.4k141
14Feb 7, '25This week, Angela Rayner was reportedly escorted out of a Grenfell meeting due to her aggression towards Grenfell survivors, while Liz Kendall has once again displayed her dismissi17.6×232k6.5k1.4k118
15Dec 22, '24What 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. #17.6×231k2.3k289417
16Sep 24, '24Starmer is to announce a new fraud, error and debt bill to ‘modernise the DWP’. This ie already covered by existing legislation. It will terrify people and perpetuate the public’s 17.6×231k4.3k1.8k146
17Nov 29, '24Rejection sensitivity is central to ADHD, autism, and cPTSD. Mental health services rarely understand rejection sensitivity, which is why people in all three diagnostic categories 15.3×201k6.9k8851.6k
18Oct 16, '24Horrific. To be in a mental health hospital, as I’ve been many times as both a professional and a patient, means you’re very, very ill. A job coach visiting implies the patient has15.2×200k5.7k1.7k154
19Sep 13, '25Andy Burnham is preparing to run for the Labour leadership, whispers have it, with a Manchester MP due to stand down imminently.14.9×196k2.8k21184
20May 31, '24Clinicians tend to over-estimate their effectiveness because they don't understand 'fawn' defence.14.8×195k2.4k229320
21Mar 9, '24As a consultant clinical psychologist, can I tell you nothing is less true. It is incredibly difficult to get disability benefits. It is not just a case of going to the GP and self14.8×194k3k81874
22Mar 11, '25Reliable source at the highest possible level has just told me huge increase in calls to suicide helplines because of the threatened benefits cuts, specially to PIP.14.1×185k3.7k1.3k172
23Mar 12, '25The fact that @Keir_Starmer has to drag all 404 Labour MPs into Downing Street from across the country to try to strong-arm them into defending his benefits cuts shows yet again ju12.3×161k6k1.3k67
24Oct 17, '25Calling extra exam time ‘unhealthy’ for autistic & ADHD kids is like calling ramps ‘unhealthy’ for wheelchair users. It’s not coddling — it’s access. The problem isn’t the acco11.8×155k2.3k536135
25Jun 20, '25Trying to escape his neighbours?11.8×155k6k47041
26Nov 7, '25I promise you SEEMS is the operative word. Benefits are so poor in this country many people are driven to food-banks. It’s often a miserable, anxiety-provoking, depressing reality 10.4×136k2.1k38466
27Mar 7, '25A reminder re benefits: - nothing will change anytime soon - most changes will be for new benefits applicants - proposals will be watered down substantially as they have to go thro10.2×134k2.5k568216
28Oct 18, '25This is the reality of disabled people working. This young man was an invaluable part of the team — praised, included, and admired — until his family asked he be paid just a little9.8×129k2.9k94080
29Jan 30, '25“Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions”. - (RIP) Marianne Faithfull9.8×129k3k559170
30May 8, '25TW Suicide x DWP A coroner has found that DWP failings contributed to the mental distress that led to 31-year-old Krissi Hunt’s suicide. She had £2.89 in her account, no food, and 9.8×129k3.7k1.3k187
31Jan 24, '25It’s common for trauma survivors and neurodivergent individuals to excel in life-or-death crises, yet struggle with tasks like putting the bins out or taking a shower. Please try t9.7×127k3.3k471418
32Sep 25, '24Starmer BBC today “Quite often I think what lies behind this is a fear for someone who’s been on long-term sickness, that: can they get back into the workplace? Are they going to b9.0×118k2.1k617224
33Sep 24, '24Starmer’s ‘no stone unturned’ on benefits claimants? Dangerous. Claimants are already *hounded for years* to prove they’re not faking it, even when clinicians scream ‘Enough!’. Thi8.9×117k3.9k1.4k92
34Mar 22, '25Excellent news. Also spoiler alert: it is. I’m half way through all these PIP scoring forms and changing to needing 4 in one item is clearly discriminatory.8.7×115k2.8k605122
35Oct 30, '24PIP fraud is at 0.2%. It’s slightly higher for Universal Credit but still v. low. Labour is posturing they’ll ‘flush out’ big gangs. What they’ll actually do is terrify claimants i8.7×115k3k93198
36Mar 17, '25Dear @wesstreeting, More people are diagnosed with mental illness because growing up in austerity increases mental illness rates—then a 2 million-strong waiting list cements disabi8.4×111k5k1.2k90
37Oct 22, '25I’ve never heard the hate against disabled people this bad. Slurs I hadn’t heard in decades are back — said casually, even proudly. The language is rougher, more casual, more legit8.3×109k3.3k781122
38Jul 11, '25Someone just tweeted me and said we can’t afford to have 20–25% of the population on PIP. So, as a PSA: 20–25% of the population AREN’T on PIP. 20–25% of the disabled population ar8.3×109k4.5k1.3k134
39Apr 29, '24Dear Mel Stride, PIP has nothing to do with employment. PIP is for moderate to severe disability and is v difficult to qualify for. Noone gets PIP 'for' depression or anxiety. It i8.2×107k3.2k80756
40Apr 19, '24Dear Mr Sunak, I am writing on behalf of the whole NHS mental health and charity sector services as we are a bit too knackered to do another consultation. Changing PIP would be dis8.1×107k3k54744
41Jul 11, '24Autistic meltdowns, burnout, and shutdowns are mistaken for BPD because oscillations to survive in an unsafe environment are confused with an unstable self. Ditto CPTSD. Ditto ADHD8.0×105k2.6k358489
42Mar 17, '25If the leaked #PIP freeze is being dropped, that’s good. But let me be clear—the far bigger concerns Labour leaked were + are: - Changing the PIP gateway to require 4 points in one7.6×100k2.1k594107
43May 17, '25BREAKING: Rachel Reeves' own local Labour party unanimously votes to oppose her disability benefit cuts. 30-0 vote shows growing rebellion within Labour ranks as they plan to write7.5×99k3.1k1.1k94
44Dec 2, '24As a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who works with many people on benefits nationally, let me truth-check #Dispatches: - Benefits are grossly inadequate - The system is dehumanis7.5×98k3.4k1k81
45Apr 3, '25If you’re on #DisabilityBenefits, it’s ok to have hobbies, holidays, food deliveries, and so on. Benefits exist so disabled people can live safely, independently, with quality of l7.3×96k4.7k1.1k144
46Mar 17, '25A prominent Labour MP told me this morning that our activism is one of the reasons Labour are considering U-turning on a couple of benefit policies. Don’t buy the spin from the thr7.3×96k2.5k70369
47Mar 18, '25Anyone else get the feeling we’re about to spend years in court arguing what ‘severe disability’ means?6.9×90k2.9k37954
48Oct 26, '24Trigger Warning: DWP Labour’s proposed snooping law will exclude only pensioners’ bank accounts. Everyone else on benefits? Under suspicion. This isn’t about facts; it’s about prej6.6×87k2k71596
49Mar 10, '25Repulsed by Labour.5.9×78k2.8k34119
50Jun 26, '25163 MPs have now signed the 'reasoned amendment'! #TakingThePIP5.6×73k2.3k57736
51Jan 17, '25‘Got the balls’? Cutting benefits doesn’t take ‘balls’—it takes callousness. Real courage is tackling inequality, supporting the vulnerable, and ensuring no one has to choose betwe5.5×72k3k1.1k50
52Mar 17, '25Labour say slashing £5-6B from disabled people is ‘tough but necessary.’ It’s not. It’s a choice. The choice to protect corporations over disabled people. The choice to sacrifice l5.5×72k4k1.2k54
53Aug 28, '25Can’t believe this needs saying in 2025 but: Human rights are good for humans.5.4×71k3.3k57016
54Sep 6, '25Suicide prevention and messaging MUST NOT be based on the presumption that people have family or friends who care. That in itself is isolating.5.4×70k5.5k968285
55May 14, '25No one is writing off people on benefits but you, Labour. Also, check your attitude. The disapproving scowling is making folk feel like they’ve done something wrong in being sick a5.3×70k2.5k63976
56Apr 30, '25I don’t want Reform to win but, my god, I want Labour to lose.5.1×67k2.4k29827
57Mar 18, '25I have communicated with people today who feel suicidal and pushed to self-harm or addiction relapse due to this bloody #DWP announcement. I’ve also spoke to people convinced they 4.9×65k2.2k58398
58Mar 15, '25As a disabled person who has worked with physically & mentally disabled people for decades, I can say this with certainty: Requiring 4 points in one area to ‘prove severity’ is4.8×63k2.2k43458
59Mar 8, '25If you think disability benefits are "too generous," try being #disabled in the UK. Try the heating bills. The inaccessible housing. The £975/month extra cost. The constant fear of4.8×63k3k61665
60Mar 8, '25Labour are sending out an unequivocal message: you matter if you work, you don’t otherwise. This is morally wrong as argued by every major philosopher, every spiritual tradition or4.5×59k3k89584
61Mar 7, '25Dear Policy Exchange, PIP is not an out-of-work benefit. So why are you trying to score political points by insisting young people on #PIP must work, volunteer or go into training?4.5×59k2.9k81057
62Mar 8, '25The Great Disability Myth Disability isn't increasing because of "fraud" or "overdiagnosis." It's increasing because people age, because we've lived through a pandemic, because aus4.5×58k3.3k925118
63Apr 30, '25Today the King called his cancer diagnosis “frightening” and “daunting” with sympathy flooding the front pages. But I also want to see this headline: 23,000 people with cancer face4.4×58k4.8k1.6k67
64Oct 17, '24If you are trauma-informed, you do not let DWP job coaches onto your mental health wards. Full stop.4.4×57k2.6k56739
65Mar 26, '25What’s announced is appalling—and we’ll fight it with every spoon we’ve got. But the biggest threats (like PIP 4+ & LCWRA changes) are far off for existing claimants and there 4.2×56k2.1k50665
66Mar 19, '25PIP wasn’t designed to assess work barriers—so why is Labour considering using it to replace incapacity benefits? Someone with bipolar might cook on a good day but be unable to lea4.2×55k2.4k515102
67Mar 21, '25People on Universal Credit LCWRA are among the poorest and most vulnerable in the country. Not everyone on LCWRA is on PIP—or eligible. Yet proposed cuts could leave them thousands4.1×54k2k56278
68Mar 4, '25The United Nations just called out the UK’s disability benefits system. PIP & ESA don’t cover basic costs. Disabled people are being pushed into poverty by welfare cuts. The go4.1×53k2.9k1.2k168
69Mar 10, '25Who in Labour PR thinks it’s a good idea to brief ministers and MPs to smugly repeat, ‘We’re the party of work – the clue’s in the name,’ while talking about £6 billion being taken4.1×53k3k74161
70Mar 21, '25Force sick and disabled people into work—and you don’t save money. You fuel suicide. Worsen illness. Deepen stigma. Break lives. This isn’t reform. It’s cruelty and it will kill ti4.1×53k3k89572
71Mar 15, '25Labour tells us ‘the welfare bill is out of control.’ What they don’t tell us? 💰 Tax fraud costs the UK £35B a year. 💰 £8B in pandemic contracts went to Tory cronies. 💰 PIP frau4.0×53k2.9k1.3k75
72Oct 16, '24We urgently need the right people visiting those in mental health hospitals: therapists, benefits advisors, housing support, domestic abuse and autism specialists. But one thing we4.0×53k2.4k80537
73Mar 25, '25We’re told an ‘impact assessment’ on #DisabilityBenefits cuts is coming with the #SpringBudget tomorrow. As a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, I can tell you: the impact is alread3.9×52k2.3k79664
74Oct 25, '25People get a Blue Badge if: They cannot walk at all. They cannot walk without help from someone else or using mobility aids. They find walking very difficult due to pain, breathles3.9×51k2.4k37629
75Sep 9, '25“We can’t afford so many autistic and ADHD people on benefits.” Translation: we can afford MPs’ expenses, banker bonuses, corporate tax breaks, corporate tax evasion — but not disa3.8×50k2.9k1k87
76Apr 1, '25Disability benefits are generous in the UK, are they? This week: PIP daily living rose by £1.25 (standard) or £1.85 (enhanced). That’s 1.7%. Today: energy bills rose 6.4%. That’s n3.8×50k2.5k87749
77Mar 12, '25Cutting benefits doesn’t ‘help’ people into work. It just makes them hungrier, sicker, and more desperate. Labour’s plan isn’t about jobs—it’s about punishing people for existing o3.7×49k2.9k77560
78Sep 24, '24As a consultant clinical psychologist, lets just be clear on the evidence, Starmer. If you want people to do well, uplift them. That means treating people with dignity, decent bene3.7×48k2.6k87742
79Jul 6, '24Seeing someone laugh or enjoy toast and tea after a suicide attempt doesn't mean they were faking or that the danger is gone.3.7×48k2.3k28579
80Mar 17, '25In my work, I meet people across all political beliefs. I’ve never met anyone who—when faced with the brutal reality of our benefits system—wasn’t horrified. There is no system han3.7×48k2.4k74164
81Sep 24, '24The idea that we should be suspicious of benefits claimants for 'fleecing the system' has been erroneously sold as fact for the past decades, with devastating effects on hearts, bo3.5×46k2.2k72955
82Oct 18, '24Dear @UKLabour, Stop targeting disabled people in an attempt to to seem fiscally tough. It's failing, and instead of making you look strong, it's exposing your ethical weakness. Do3.5×46k2.5k69924
83Sep 24, '24The biggest threat to mental health in this country isn’t ‘too generous’ benefits discouraging work. It’s a cruel, dehumanising system that treats people as worthless for being wor3.4×45k2.1k69476
84Jun 28, '25A MESSAGE FOR MPs. As a consultant clinical psychologist, I must be clear: this Green Paper will cost lives, deepen despair, and worsen inequality. Vote no to #DisabilityBenefits c3.4×45k2.1k95166
85Jan 25, '25I can’t stop thinking about the contempt in Liz Kendall’s gaze when she said there would be no such thing as ‘a life on benefits.’ Facial expressions like that wound deeper than wo3.4×45k2.1k56070
86Apr 14, '25One of the deepest disappointments in life is watching people gain power and become exactly what they once claimed to despise.3.4×45k3k69242
87Mar 25, '25Dear @RachelReevesMP @leicesterliz, Do you have ANY idea what this onslaught on #DisabilityBenefits is doing to the mental health of MILLIONS of claimants and carers? The fear, the3.4×44k2.4k66331
88Jun 30, '25A former minister told the BBC it is easy to ‘game’ the PIP form based on knowing what to fill in This is untrue. PIP forms are not only notoriously difficult to fill in but requir3.3×44k2.1k63442
89Jul 9, '25I’m ashamed to live in a country that just passed a welfare bill condemning hundreds of thousands to deeper poverty and despair. I’m ashamed of a Labour government that refused to 3.3×44k2.3k81848
90Mar 10, '25Opposing the removal of £6 billion from disabled people and some of the most vulnerable in society isn’t about being left or right—inside or outside Labour. It’s about basic decenc3.1×41k2.5k70719
91Mar 8, '25You can tell how little Labour care about disabled people’s mental health by the fact they leaked £6 billion in cuts—specifically and disproportionately hitting us—late on a Friday3.1×41k2.1k60450
92Mar 12, '25People aren’t out of work because their ‘aspirations are low,’ MP Jo White. They’re out of work because they’re disabled. Because their communities have been starved of opportunity3.1×40k2.5k68457
93Mar 26, '25Arriving at Downing Street to protest the #DisabilityBenefits cuts. What’s being proposed will shatter lives. It will cause preventable anguish, despair, and death. And it targets 3.1×40k2.1k58034
94Dec 2, '24If you are on benefits, a reminder: - you are not doing anything wrong - we are all need support - we all contribute - we all matter - we are all equal I am glad to be in community3.0×39k2.2k48431
95Apr 4, '25The DWP exaggerated a 50% rise in sick/disabled claimants into 383% — got called out, then quietly edited the press release two weeks later. No apology. No correction note. Mislead2.9×38k2.2k1.1k77
96Jun 12, '25Dear @UKLabour, I’m a consultant clinical psychologist. What should I tell people terrified they’ll be left destitute by your proposed PIP and LCWRA changes—because you’re removing2.8×37k2.2k82756
97Apr 5, '25“About 400,000 people are falling out of work due to sickness,” says Kendall. “The longer someone is signed off, the less likely they are to return.” Well, yes, because they’re sic2.8×37k2.7k59661
98Mar 8, '25The actual fraud isn’t people faking disability. It’s politicians pretending to care about disabled people, then slashing the support that keeps us alive.2.7×35k2.8k66944
99May 28, '25You want to cut PIP because “too many people qualify.” Ever wonder why? Maybe more people are disabled because more people are burned out, injured by austerity, stuck on waiting li2.4×32k2.3k64555
100Oct 20, '25We do NOT need work coaches in GP surgeries. We DO need: More GPs, Therapists, Benefits & Debt Advisors, Domestic Abuse Workers & Social Prescribers save lives & NHS ca2.4×31k2.3k71739
101Nov 10, '22‘England’s mental health care lacks money, yes – but it also lacks compassion’. New article from me for @guardian emphasising the paradigm shift we need is as much about ideology a1.1×01.6k644185

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