School Bullying - Short-term and Long-term Effects

Short-term and Long-term Effects

See also: Post traumatic stress disorder and Psychological trauma

Dombeck says that as a forty-year-old man, he still feels the effects of the bullying he received as a ten-year-old. Every day, he would dread riding the bus home from school because he was bullied by the older children on the bus. Dombeck defines some common short-term and long-term effects of bullying. These include, but are not limited to:

Short-term:

  • depression
  • suicide (bullycide) Many feel unwanted in life and that they should not live
  • anxiety
  • anger
  • significant drop in school performance
  • Feeling as if their life has fallen apart
  • Excessive stress

Long-term:

  • abiding feelings of insecurity
  • lack of trust
  • extreme sensitivity (hypervigilance)
  • mental illness such as psychopathy
  • Vengeance

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