Bullying is something that takes a negative levy on today’s youth. Many school-age children suffer from bullying in their schools, online and other places. Most schools have rules and programs to prevent bullying, but still, children are being bullied. Bullying is happening due to lack of enforcement in those schools. Lack of enforcement from the schools, and social media being so popular there has been an increase in bullying. The increasing numbers of bullying in the public-school system are having a vast impact on today’s youth. As a result, it has caused a sudden growth in mental health issues, drug, and alcohol abuse and a rise in school violence.
Mental health issues can be the biggest effect that can come from being bullied. It can …show more content…
Youths who have been bullied tend to turn to drug and alcohol to escape from what they are experiencing. In a paper entitled Cyber Bullying and Physical Bullying in Adolescent Suicide: The Role of Violent Behavior and Substance Use the author states “bullying produce negative psychological states that increase the probability than an adolescent will engage in substance use” (Litwiller, Brausch. 676) Like Litwiller and Brausch stated the psychological state of someone who has been bullied or bullies can cause them to turn to substance abuse an escape. The drugs are a way to help numb the body from the mental pain that others have caused. They use these substances to fit in, deal with stress and have fun. Victims of bullying turn to these to help depress the thought that has, and it can lead back to mental health aspect of things. Like with mental health issues the victims are not the only who turn to substance abuse in this subject. The bullies also turn to substance abuse and are more likely to use than the victims of bullying. Which has a huge effect on the future of those youth’s …show more content…
Youth who have been bullied and have developed a mental health issue from being bullied often want to seek revenge on their offender. This can be simple things like getting into a fight or more serious and something we are facing a lot today, murder. Especially with victims that have been bullied on multiple accounts by different people. The anger from these victims can lead to stuff like school shooting or stabbing. A trend in shoot shooters in that most of them was outcast in their school, someone that would likely succumb to bullying. The mental health of someone, for they are unstable has a lot to do with violence in
Mental health issues can be the biggest effect that can come from being bullied. It can …show more content…
Youths who have been bullied tend to turn to drug and alcohol to escape from what they are experiencing. In a paper entitled Cyber Bullying and Physical Bullying in Adolescent Suicide: The Role of Violent Behavior and Substance Use the author states “bullying produce negative psychological states that increase the probability than an adolescent will engage in substance use” (Litwiller, Brausch. 676) Like Litwiller and Brausch stated the psychological state of someone who has been bullied or bullies can cause them to turn to substance abuse an escape. The drugs are a way to help numb the body from the mental pain that others have caused. They use these substances to fit in, deal with stress and have fun. Victims of bullying turn to these to help depress the thought that has, and it can lead back to mental health aspect of things. Like with mental health issues the victims are not the only who turn to substance abuse in this subject. The bullies also turn to substance abuse and are more likely to use than the victims of bullying. Which has a huge effect on the future of those youth’s …show more content…
Youth who have been bullied and have developed a mental health issue from being bullied often want to seek revenge on their offender. This can be simple things like getting into a fight or more serious and something we are facing a lot today, murder. Especially with victims that have been bullied on multiple accounts by different people. The anger from these victims can lead to stuff like school shooting or stabbing. A trend in shoot shooters in that most of them was outcast in their school, someone that would likely succumb to bullying. The mental health of someone, for they are unstable has a lot to do with violence in