What Are the Effects of Bullying on the Victim?
There can be tragic emotional consequences for victims of bullies. In recent studies, nearly 50% of those surveyed revealed they had thought about committing suicide as a result of bullying. It is devastating to report that this group converts thoughts to actions at a much higher rate than those that have not been bullied. Bullying victims are also much more prone to suffer depression. A devastating effect of bullying is the pattern it creates in bullying victims’ lives that can last their whole life. Nearly 40% of people bullied at school go on to be bullied later on in adult life at work, further education and also in social circles. In our young and developing children, self esteem is crucial. Bullying takes away self esteem like nothing else and victims of bullies always report that they feel worse about themselves after being bullied. The normal child feels low self esteem at a rate of about 1% whereas bullied children report feelings of low self esteem about as high as 40%. Child
