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The Long-term Impact of Bullying
For today’s article, if you are somebody who suffered bullying during their most formative years, I would say between the age of 10 and the age of 16, and then this article may be very traumatic for you.
In regards to this story, I’m going to tell I’m going to relate my own experiences of being bullied during my teenage years and late childhood and how that impacted me until I was a full-grown adult.
On another note, I would say the impact of the bullying no longer really sets me apart, but being bullied still affects my mental state and how I deal with it.
For myself and many others who may relate to this, when I was bullied, I often had violent fantasies of having revenge on the person or people who hurt me.
For anybody reading this who themselves were bullied, this may sound very familiar.
It is the human imagination trying to cope with being bullied, and it does this by creating fantasies to deal with the prolonged trauma over periods of months, if not years.
I would say, even to this day, I often have violent fantasies when engaging in confrontations that could become frightening or confrontations which are highly emotionally charged.
They happen almost without me realising it in the real world around me, almost disappearing…
