Does Violence Cause Desensitization

Violence can cause desensitization, which can cause the victim to think that violence isn’t wrong, or even cause the victim to become violent or abusive themselves. In addition, violence can cause or worsen the effects of mental illness, contribute to low self esteem, increase the risk of substance abuse/ addictive behaviours, and increase the risk of the victim being suicidal or self harming. If one of those things impacts the victim, there is a higher chance of the other effects affecting the victim as well, as there is a correlation between violence, mental illness, suicidal behaviour/ self injury, and substance abuse.

Cyberbullying is any bullying that occurs over the Internet. It can be saying, posting, or creating something, or doing …show more content…
Emotional abuse is a form of abuse where a person is subjected or exposed to behaviour that may cause them psychological harm

Verbal and indirect bullying can humiliate, shame, control, blame, isolate, or negate the feelings of the victim, they can cause the victim psychological harm. Therefore, they would be considered to be forms of emotional abuse.

Indirect bullying is a common form of bullying because it can be harder to pinpoint the person behind it as indirect bullying can often be spreading rumours, which are hard to find the source of once they spread, or ignoring someone, which is hard to notice if the bystanders don’t notice or also ignore that person. Indirect bullying can also happen over the Internet anonymously, which can make the perpetrator have a lack of empathy, which can be because they think that it would be harder or impossible to get caught and that the victim doesn’t know or won’t find out who did it.

Examples of indirect bullying include exclusion, ostracization, gossiping or spreading rumours, and mocking someone.

Some of the emotional challenges the victims of hate crimes and racism endure include being ostracized, being an outcast, prejudice, harassment, being stereotyped,