Why Bullying Isn't OK

Bullying happens more than we'd like to admit. It happens in our personal life, social life, work life, and it also happens in our school lives. However, not everyone will get bullied, or will get bullied to the extent that they will associate themselves with getting bullied.

Bullying in our personal lives can happen by our family members or by the person we are associated with in a relationship. For example, you can get bullied by your uncle, brother, cousin, or auntie (including other family members), but you can also get bullied by your boyfriend or girlfriend.

Social lives can involve a much greater variety of bullying because you can come across a number of different people throughout your life, whether it be in person or across the internet.

Work life bullying also happens a lot more than people admit because they may be scared of the stigma behind the bullying or because of who they are being bullied by. For example, in a workplace, you can be bullied by a colleague, manager, or maybe a service user that you may come across.

Although people may associate this term "bullying" to be the same as their social life bullying, the most common place people associate with bullying is schools. This is because it happens so much whilst the parents are out of control of their children, although some parents aren't always aware of what is either happening to their child or what their child is actually doing to someone else.

However, I have an example for all four "spectrums" of bullying. Some go from the extreme side of bullying to the calmer side of bullying. Many people have different outlooks on the term "bullying" and the types of bullying. This may be because of what they have had to experience throughout their lifetime, what other people they know have experienced, what they have learnt from school, and also what they have been told from their parents and the way they have been brought up.

Some people believe that the reason why some children are bullies and carry on to be bullies throughout their lives is because of the way they have either been taught or the way they have been brought up by their parents/guardians. They believe that if they are not punished enough or punished in the right way then the child will learn that they are able to "get away" with certain actions or most of their actions without any consequences.

Being bullied in their personal life, social life, work life, and school life can affect people in different ways. Some turn into a bully because they have had enough of having other people take advantage of them. Other children grow up to learn not to believe what anyone tells them. Others grow up to develop serious mental health issues. Some don't even get the chance to grow up because of the extent of their bullying, and they end up taking their own life before they are able to live their life.

The reason why bullying is not OK is because no child should be put in the position where they have to choose between killing themselves or running away and hiding from the life they should be living. Six, seven, eight-year-olds shouldn't be scared of going to school because of certain children and they definitely shouldn't be thinking about suicide. Six, seven, eight-year-olds having to go to the doctor and being diagnosed with depression or anxiety has doubled, maybe tripled, since I was six (which is 14 years ago).

Bullying is at an all-time high in schools and in workplaces. This is where children are scared to talk about being bullied, maybe because they aren't getting the support they need from teachers, friends, or parents. But it is also leading to grown men and women being scared of coming forward or saying something about being bullied in the workplace. This is most probably because of the stigma around bullying in today's world.