What are the short and long term effects of bullying?

Answer 1

Bullying can hurt people both physically and mentally. Obviously, any physical bullying can leave injuries, bruises, scars and can often go as far as death. For the bully, it can often lead to worse crimes such as violence, stealing, and other things in the long run. Bullying can destroy a person's self-esteem. The person may develop psychological beliefs that they deserved to be bullied, which will inhibit them later in life. Some children drop out of school if the bullying is taken to far. Bullying victims have 3 times the normal chance of suffering depression. More and more often bullying is leading to thoughts of suicide and actually carrying it out. Bullying may force the victims to start avoid social situations, which can have devastating results on their lives. Victims may struggle later in life with making friends or dealing with problems. They are many things that go on psychologically in a victim's mind that cause a huge need for bullying to be stopped.