The effects of being bullied in school

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Many grown-ups nowadays who were bullied at one point in school still suffer the effects till date. Bullying has always been a bad practice with negative effects that are long lasting. It always starts as a joke and maybe seem fun at the end of the bullies but at the other end of the one being bullied, it is not fun at all. So many negative results erupted from what was supposed to be simply fun and a joke into regretable outcomes. Bullying has become a way of life in most schools nowadays at the various levels. It has become almost part of the student culture that has been passed from one batch of students to the next. It is very common in schools nowadays for the senior students to bully the junior ones all in the name of having fun and upholding the way things run.

As we all know, bullying in so many cases has devastating effects on both the bully and the one who is being bullied. The latter suffer most of the effects and the effects are more directed to this person. While the bully is predisposed to a future life of violence, abuse, crime and many more, the effects on the one being bullied are even more devastating. Some of which include:

1 . Suicide

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So many students and young people take away their lives because of being bullied. This might seem pretty stupid but that is the truth. You will never really understand what such kids go through, the psychological trauma, the fear that grips them everytime they lay eyes on their nemesis. Sometimes, the best way out for them is to end their own lives.

2 . Murder

While some fragile ones will choose to end their own lives, there are others that will want to take revenge on their persecutors and this has resulted to acts of violence and possibly murder in extreme cases. A little thing that was meant for fun getting to the point where one is killed.

3 . Lifetime fear syndrome

There are many adults nowadays who go are so afraid and tensed at the very least offense or joke. It is kind of syndrome that accompanies them through out their lives and proper investigations and observations of such cases have proven that most of such people were abused, bullied or witnessed a violent incident when they were young.
Children that are exposed to bullying always demonstrate fear especially when they sight their persecutors anywhere. You can really see them in a state of panic and sheer fear overtakes them. This is also the main reason why they will hardly tell anyone of what they are going through in the first place. They fear what might happen if they ever report or tell on the one bullying them.

4 . Always distracted

Students that are bullied in school will suffer from distraction because of their state of trauma and fear. They will always be distracted and lost in a form of hallucinative thought of being harrassed by their persecutors. Most of them even try to fight this feeling in their dreams and minds. That is why they will always appear lost and drowned in their thoughts. They will hardly do well in their studies as a result of lack of concentration.

5 . Always unhappy

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It is no news that children who are bullied will always be unhappy no matter what you do to them. They will always have that sad expression physically and the worst part is, they will hardly want to talk about it. It is due to their unhappy states and frustrations that most at times they throw thundering tantrums at the slightest provocation.

These and many more are the adverse effects suffered by young people that are bullied in school or society. In 75% of such cases, the victims hardly open up to anyone about what they are going thrrough. So it is in the place of parents to properly have a close relationship with their children so that they can easily identify such issues and solve them as soon as possible before it gets too extreme. Bullying has always been a bad practice and affects the victims negatively in everyway. I have never been bullied as a young person but i have witnessed a number of cases of others that were bullied and what it really did to them.

The problem is that many people laugh at the issue and consider it a norm in the society which should not be the case. It is a bad practice that should be discouraged in schools, communities and society. Bullies should be punished accordingly and the practice discouraged. It is really affecting the normal life of so many kids out there in school and the worst part of it is that some of these kids even have parents especially fathers that will tell them that they are weaklings because they are being bullied in school. This is really bad and it even adds to the pressure already on the poor kid and his/her own way of proving his/her father wrong might be a terrible move.

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Parents, please love and cherish your children; protect them from all forms of danger including bullying. It is your fundamental duty as a parent to protect your children and that includes from the bullies. Be the kind of parent that your kids can open up to or confide in any situation. The society is dark and full dangers and parents are the only ones these children and young people can run to. Will you defend them when they run to you or push them right into the evil hands of the society?
Bullying is bad and should be discouraged in our schools, community and society.

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