Life After Bullying

It can be verbal, like saying something rude to someone to make them feel bad. Or it can also be physical like getting onto a fight with another person who is weaker than you. Another type of bullying is cyber bullying which is done online. The last type of bullying is indirect bullying which is saying mean things about someone behind their back or spreading rumors about them. There are 3 people involved in the bullying, the victim which is the person who is being bullied and the actual bully who is causing the abuse and the last person involved is they bystander is a person who sees the bullying happening.

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Lack of empathy might be the consequence of misunderstanding. When people who are called bullies misunderstand their peers because of lack of empathy, they become aggressive since they cannot notice what the fact is. Due to their aggressiveness, they start to hurt others either verbal or physical that actually means they just start bullying. As an example, a student P1-03-B008(as cited in Ching-Tsai Wong, Ying-Yao Cheng & Li-Ming Chen (2013) Multiple perspectives on the targets and causes of school bullying, Educational Psychology in Practice, p.9) says ‘' All of us do not understand him and think he's a freak. We started it off as a joke, and he did not really object, but we gradually grew more and more intense, and it turned into bullying him.''.

All types of bullying are dangerous to the victim. The victim starts to believe the words that come out of the bullies mouth. The victim gets down on their self and turns to drugs or other things to make them feel better. People bully for different reasons. There are cultural causes of bullying.

BULLYING Bullying has increasingly becoming a bigger issue in most countries with devastating results, it occurs in many forms, and has affected lots of people. It is an unwanted, aggressive behavior among school or in public places. Bullying involves a real or perceived power imbalance. In most countries, bullying is a part of the everyday life of some students. Bullying happens nowadays, because it has reasons behind it.

A bully is someone who picks on other people, because they think it is the way to solve their problems. There are many types of bullying, there is physical, verbal, and mental. Children that are ages five through eleven began using verbal abuse and some even use physical abuse (Garrett 33). People estimated that one hundred and sixty thousand students miss school every day, and twenty-eight million missed school days per year, due to fear of being bullied (Garrett 36). Six million boys and four million girls are involved in fights from being bullied or bullying others (Garrett 33).

The demands a kid feels to fit in among their peers can be difficult and sometimes even unattainable. Those who cannot do so, often become victims of bullying and are harassed by the more “popular” kids. Bullying has always been a troublesome problem for schools of all kind, all over the world. For the majority of kids bullying seems

“Teenage girls are more often the targets of rumors and sexual comments” ( Nansel, Overpeck, Pilla, Ruan, Simons-Morton, Scheidt 2001). Bullies usually target people who are different, it may be physical differences or even intelligence, and also they tend to target people who won’t retaliate back. They usually harass the person by attacking at there differences and imperfections. So a bully is someone who causes harm to others over and over again. Bullying has many negative effects on many people such as the victim, the bully himself, and society.

Bullying is undesirable, antagonistic manner among school going children that involves a real alleged power discrepancy. The power imbalance comes about because the bullies uses their physical strength, their power, embarrassing information, obnoxious language, or their reputation to control or maltreat other kids. The bullies are prone to recap the behavior over time. The act for bullying is agonizing because those bullied are long affected by the act and may live in fear in their life. Issues have arisen whether the bully should receive a special form of punishment at a particular age because just like the other offenses bullying should be punishable.

Bullies and victims have some similarities they both suffer from symptoms of depression, experience suicidal thoughts, both suffer from psychiatric problems and both come from harsh environments. Bullies are more likely to engage in criminal acts, ... ... middle of paper ... ...is taken up due to the worrying and the anxiety that comes with bullying. Our top priority should be fixing this problem. Bullying can be a huge problem that can affect the whole school if we don’t take care of it. One important issue we need to address is the role of bystanders.