Mental Health 7: Anti-Bullying Week - Bullying and Mental Health
Hello my beautiful friends!
I apologise for not posting a blog post and Thursday study timelapse last week. As I briefly mentioned on my Instagram story, I was feeling mentally down, so felt unable to do the reading required for the blog post I had planned.
This week (12th-16th November) is Anti Bullying Week 2018. I have decided to write this blog post to raise awareness for the issue of bullying because I have experience bullying at various stages of my life. This post will include my experience of bullying, focusing on how bullying affected my mental health and, more importantly, how we can stop bullying.
My first experience of bullying, which I can recall, occurred during Year 5 when I was 10 years old. A girl, who was in my class, used to verbally bully me, making fun of me to other girls. I believe this triggered my anxiety disorder because I began vomiting before school due to anxiety during this time, although I did not identify this as anxiety at the time.
During secondary school, I experienced verbal bullying from a few girls, including someone who was my best friend. I still do not feel confident going into detail, but these incidents did make me feel very low and lonely, which lead to my anxiety and depression worsening at these points.
Bullying can both trigger mental health problems and worsen existing mental health problems, which is a horrible experience for people. So, what can we do to stop this?
The answer: kindness. Be kind to everyone. Give a stranger a random compliment. Make the effort to be kind everyday. Being kind could impact someone's mental health in a positive way. Not only will victims of bullying be affected, the bullies themselves may be affected positively. Often, bullies are insecure, so use bullying to cover their insecurities. Being kind to someone with the potential to become a bully may prevent them from covering their insecurities with bullying in the first place. You do not know how kindness will affect someone, but all affects will be positive.
I hope my ramblings throughout this post have made some sense. I recommend visiting the Bullying UK website for more information about bullying and Anti Bullying Week. The Studytuber, Ruby Granger is also an advocate for anti-bullying and kindness, so I recommend that you watch her videos, especially the videos in her kindness series, for more inspiration about how to be kind.
My challenge for my readers is to do something kind everyday for this whole week. Develop kindness into a habit. Although this kindness is on a small scale, kindness can spread. It just takes one small act of kindness.
I apologise for not posting a blog post and Thursday study timelapse last week. As I briefly mentioned on my Instagram story, I was feeling mentally down, so felt unable to do the reading required for the blog post I had planned.
This week (12th-16th November) is Anti Bullying Week 2018. I have decided to write this blog post to raise awareness for the issue of bullying because I have experience bullying at various stages of my life. This post will include my experience of bullying, focusing on how bullying affected my mental health and, more importantly, how we can stop bullying.
My first experience of bullying, which I can recall, occurred during Year 5 when I was 10 years old. A girl, who was in my class, used to verbally bully me, making fun of me to other girls. I believe this triggered my anxiety disorder because I began vomiting before school due to anxiety during this time, although I did not identify this as anxiety at the time.
During secondary school, I experienced verbal bullying from a few girls, including someone who was my best friend. I still do not feel confident going into detail, but these incidents did make me feel very low and lonely, which lead to my anxiety and depression worsening at these points.
Bullying can both trigger mental health problems and worsen existing mental health problems, which is a horrible experience for people. So, what can we do to stop this?
The answer: kindness. Be kind to everyone. Give a stranger a random compliment. Make the effort to be kind everyday. Being kind could impact someone's mental health in a positive way. Not only will victims of bullying be affected, the bullies themselves may be affected positively. Often, bullies are insecure, so use bullying to cover their insecurities. Being kind to someone with the potential to become a bully may prevent them from covering their insecurities with bullying in the first place. You do not know how kindness will affect someone, but all affects will be positive.
I hope my ramblings throughout this post have made some sense. I recommend visiting the Bullying UK website for more information about bullying and Anti Bullying Week. The Studytuber, Ruby Granger is also an advocate for anti-bullying and kindness, so I recommend that you watch her videos, especially the videos in her kindness series, for more inspiration about how to be kind.
My challenge for my readers is to do something kind everyday for this whole week. Develop kindness into a habit. Although this kindness is on a small scale, kindness can spread. It just takes one small act of kindness.
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