Has this ever occurred within anybody else’s experiences of attempting to take the CORE services advice and attempt social engagement as part of my treatment for being very warry about being outside in hostile environments, I started of working less than 16 hours and worked the extra shifts over the Xmas period due to staff shortages and wanting not to let the side down.
For this I am in a whole bunch of trouble and think that it’s defiantly not encouraging at all for someone with my problem as you have to battle thought broadcasting and voices giving me a hard time as I struggle to keep it a secret.
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Hi and welcome to the forum waves
I’m sorry to hear that you’re experiencing this with the DWP. How many months did you work for in total, and how many weeks were over 16 hours? I think they can be very intimidating but hopefully you will be able to prove things from your point of view and can show that you wouldn’t have been able to maintain 16+ hours a week for a long period of time.
Best of luck to you!
Hi, Thanks for your kind response I was working part time since last October performing between 8 and 12 hours a week, then over Xmas I worked extra shift making up the 16 hours over December.
I never earned over the celling limit and was noticing angry looking people pointing smart phones at me watching me, would members of the public be employed by the DWP now to report back using social media.
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I honestly don’t think they would.
The DWP wouldn’t employ members of the public to report benefit fraud, because quite frankly that would be another expense which they wouldn’t want to pay.
Anyone can report benefit fraud. But the question is why would they want to, if they didn’t know you personally. I mean they would be wasting their own time and therefore money. Most people just go about their daily business looking out for themselves.
I guess it depends where you work, but in retail, especially around the festive season, it’s not unreasonable to get your phone out to take a picture or video.
Just saying this as hoping it will comfort you and you can see it from a different perspective. I think the public just go about their own business and you may have been experiencing paranoia.
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You would in most cases think this, and I agree that within most cases this would be the case, though you don’t live and experience want I experience by total strangers doing just this, in most cases they incur benefit fraud or some other perceived criminal act.
I’ve had them preform street harassment during the uk lock down, and been openly and covertly mobbed within the local town centre.
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It’s true enough that I haven’t experienced exactly what you have experienced.
I have lived through years of harassment from a large group of mostly unknown people. However now, I try to see what happened (and sometimes still occurs) as a symptom. That has helped me move passed things a lot.
Thank you for sharing that with me, could I ask when you experienced the unwanted attention from total strangers was that about the same time the experiences of ‘voices’ kicked in.
Sorry if this is in any way triggering for you.
The group started in 2016 for me. I didnt hear voices at first but command noises, eventually I heard them talking about me while they were monitoring me. It felt as though they had hacked into my brain and I could hear them. I think that was in about 2018 when it developed to that stage. I was off my medication for three years or so.
I’m now on meds (15mg abilify - although I was prescribed 20mg but couldn’t handle the side effects). Honestly, my life was he’ll when I wasn’t on meds.
Are you on meds? Do you find that helps?
Oh, I also saw lights and text like on a screen.
As a rule I don’t usually go too in depth about my past psychosis here as I do find it a tad triggering 
I can’t thank you enough, in short I know exactly what you are talking about.
I had a similar experience at the age of 26ish I can see patterns in what happened to us with regards to this.
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I’m really sorry to hear that you experienced something similar. All the best to you. Also, well done for holding down a job since October because that is a real achievement, especially with all you’ve faced.
THX’s TBH I am more interested in this now and am writing to a few people in regards to this.
I wanted to thank you for your kind support and encouragement.
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