Written by: K. Sassirekha, Remedial Teacher, Helikx Open School
It’s impossible for an individual to explain what exactly bullying is and how it feels to be bullied unless they have been through it personally. Bullying is an unwanted, undesirable, aggressive behaviour which is constantly and intentionally used over another person (victim) to abuse, dominate, hurt or cause any sort of discomfort to them. Bullying may occur at any places right from family, public places, educational institutions to work areas and persists among all age groups. People turn up into bullies because they think that it will lift up their social status and will project them to be powerful. An individual bullies another person due to his/her jealousy or envy over another person or lack of personal or social skills.
In educational institutions like schools and colleges, a student who purposefully wants to show off his/her power/ dominance / bossiness over the other intentionally, turns up to be a bully. A particular student targeted by the bully becomes a victim. There are certain students who doesn’t get involved in bullying directly but encourage further bullying from the surrounding students. Some catalyse bullying by laughing over it or passing comments. Whereas few feel pity for the victim but do not know how to help and some stand against it directly.
The victims are generally bullied in any of these three ways: physically, emotionally & verbally. In physical bullying, the victim is physically hurt/ injured by the bully like punching, pushing, shoving, etc. In emotional bullying, the bully spreads rumors about the victim, keeps the victim out of group, gets certain people to gang up, make fun, ignoring the victim on purpose & says hurtful sentence against them. In verbal bullying, the bully uses direct foul language over the victim, provides low opinion to others about them, criticizes them and mocks at them.
Post bullying effects over the victim are awful. The victim shows a drop in academic grades, stress, change in eating & sleeping pattern, tiredness, anxiety, anger, trust less, feeling insecure, extreme sensitivity, depression, suicidal tendency and vengeance. If the bulling is physical then the victim along with the previously mentioned effects also suffers injury, bruises & damaged belongings.
With a ray of hope that the significance of this physical & emotional parasite will create an awareness to the public and make people to raise their voice against it, this article has been made.
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