The long-lasting effects of bullying
Introduction
Bullying appears in school, workplace and also internet. According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (n.d.), the meaning of bullying is the unwanted, aggressive behavior among people that involves the situation of power imbalance. Nowadays, it has become a more serious issue as the awareness of human rights is raised. Bullying in school is serious and common in the U.S., 2014 statistic data from the US Department of Health and Human Services shows that 85% of bullying occurred inside schools,. However, only 37% of victims reported being bullied at school. Unreported bullying allow bullies to have more aggressive and continuous behavior, therefore this situation become worsen …show more content…
There are different types of bullying behavior, physical harassment is one of them, for example, beating, slapping, punching and kicking. Bullies always think that these kinds of attacks only bring victims some minor bruises or small wounds. Due to this conception, bullies usually do not think of the consequences of their attacks, therefore victims get physical injuries on their body all the time. Last year, a case of bullying happened in the U.S., which brought the victim a permanent injury. Farren Washington (2015) from ABC news reported that an eleven-year-old girl Gwendolyn Quarles developed a rare disease of brain disorder which made her suffered from permanent blindness after being bullied at school. Her classmate who is the bully threw a football at her face in the gym class, but she didn’t report the issue to her teacher. Meanwhile, her teacher didn’t realize it as well. The day after, she was taken to the hospital by her parents as she felt painful about her eyes, then she got this disease of permanent blindness. The bully has never thought of making her classmate become permanently blindness, unfortunately the accident happened and there is no way to compensate for the girl’s lost. Therefore, bullying can bring permanently body harm to …show more content…
Patricia Cohen (2011), a professor from the college of Physicians and Surgeons in Columbia University mentioned that teens who were bullied were twice as likely to experience psychotic symptoms compared to their peers who were not bullied. It means that bullying has a direct relationship which highly increases victims’ opportunities to have psychological harassment and mental illness, which is a negatively long term effect on victims. The reason that bullying can lead to higher chance of mental illness is the altering in functioning of expression gene inside human body. Isabelle Ouellet-Morin (2012), professor at the University of Montreal and Centre for Studies on Human Stress at the Hospital Louis-H. Lafontaine suggested that genes are immutable; especially social environment can affect gene’s functioning. In other words, social movements simulate victims and hence alter the performances of expression gene to become unstable or worsen, and then people express their emotion in another way different from a normal person. In that moment, people will suffer from mental illness easily. Patients with mental illness have a lower self-esteem, unpredictable behavior and fluctuated emotion. Anxiety disorders, mood disorders and psychotic disorders are common types of mental illness; it not only affects the person himself, but also brings doubt, confusion and chaos to a family (Gravitz, 2014). Family members need to spare
Introduction
Bullying appears in school, workplace and also internet. According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (n.d.), the meaning of bullying is the unwanted, aggressive behavior among people that involves the situation of power imbalance. Nowadays, it has become a more serious issue as the awareness of human rights is raised. Bullying in school is serious and common in the U.S., 2014 statistic data from the US Department of Health and Human Services shows that 85% of bullying occurred inside schools,. However, only 37% of victims reported being bullied at school. Unreported bullying allow bullies to have more aggressive and continuous behavior, therefore this situation become worsen …show more content…
There are different types of bullying behavior, physical harassment is one of them, for example, beating, slapping, punching and kicking. Bullies always think that these kinds of attacks only bring victims some minor bruises or small wounds. Due to this conception, bullies usually do not think of the consequences of their attacks, therefore victims get physical injuries on their body all the time. Last year, a case of bullying happened in the U.S., which brought the victim a permanent injury. Farren Washington (2015) from ABC news reported that an eleven-year-old girl Gwendolyn Quarles developed a rare disease of brain disorder which made her suffered from permanent blindness after being bullied at school. Her classmate who is the bully threw a football at her face in the gym class, but she didn’t report the issue to her teacher. Meanwhile, her teacher didn’t realize it as well. The day after, she was taken to the hospital by her parents as she felt painful about her eyes, then she got this disease of permanent blindness. The bully has never thought of making her classmate become permanently blindness, unfortunately the accident happened and there is no way to compensate for the girl’s lost. Therefore, bullying can bring permanently body harm to …show more content…
Patricia Cohen (2011), a professor from the college of Physicians and Surgeons in Columbia University mentioned that teens who were bullied were twice as likely to experience psychotic symptoms compared to their peers who were not bullied. It means that bullying has a direct relationship which highly increases victims’ opportunities to have psychological harassment and mental illness, which is a negatively long term effect on victims. The reason that bullying can lead to higher chance of mental illness is the altering in functioning of expression gene inside human body. Isabelle Ouellet-Morin (2012), professor at the University of Montreal and Centre for Studies on Human Stress at the Hospital Louis-H. Lafontaine suggested that genes are immutable; especially social environment can affect gene’s functioning. In other words, social movements simulate victims and hence alter the performances of expression gene to become unstable or worsen, and then people express their emotion in another way different from a normal person. In that moment, people will suffer from mental illness easily. Patients with mental illness have a lower self-esteem, unpredictable behavior and fluctuated emotion. Anxiety disorders, mood disorders and psychotic disorders are common types of mental illness; it not only affects the person himself, but also brings doubt, confusion and chaos to a family (Gravitz, 2014). Family members need to spare