Bullying Can Lead To Suicide

Bullying and Why It Can Lead to Suicide

Unfortunately, in today’s society there are many people that are effected by bullying. Bullying behavior is defined by actions that include harm, unfair match, and repetition. The combination of these three factors, when mixed with the undeveloped self-esteem of adolescents, can become a deadly combination. “Bullying behavior creates a climate of fear and tension that affects everyone and reduces the ability to work, learn, and achieve maximum potential” (unknown). Bullying can affect people in many different ways. Bullying can consist in emotional, social, racial, physical, sexual, and verbal form. Bullying can also result in kids cutting and overdosing on narcotics. As a society, we have a responsibility to do whatever we can to put a stop to this unnecessary torture. The days of a playground bully have greatly changed. The days of harassing and threatening weaker kids are gone. Today, there is a greater threat to people of all ages, but especially younger people. With social media, texting, and personal contact, bullying has reached a whole new level that has become inescapable. In previous

The best way to prevent bullying is to create an environment that does not tolerate this behavior and promotes positive behavior. One goal of a bully is to isolate their target and make them feel lesser of a person. If you take a stand for yourself or someone you witness being bullied, you take away the power of the bully to accomplish their goal. Students who experience bullying report that allying and supportive actions from their peers (such as spending time with the student, talking to him/her, helping him/her get away, or giving advice) were the most helpful action from bystanders (Davis). Students who experience bullying are more likely to find peer actions more helpful than educator or self-actions