It never goes away.
The constant fear that your friends will ditch you.
The constant anxiety that they're all playing a joke on you.
The constant fear that they don't actually like you.
When you're with your friends your anxiety goes through the roof because you're petrified of getting ditched or made fun of too much, or that your friends aren't just kidding.
This is not the way it should be.
You should not fear for yourself when you are with your friends.
If your friends did not like you, they would ditch you and they would ignore you.
You worry that there is a group message without you in it where they all make fun of you and plot ways to ditch you or destroy you.
It never goes away.
Bullying is not a joke.
It is hard for you to believe that people actually like you and want to hang out with you for who you are. All of your quirks, lame jokes, and tendency to show up late they don't get annoyed with you. They love you for who you are.
The fear and anxiety will never go away. I'm almost 22-years-old and I still worry about being bullied or being ditched by my friends. It's hard for someone like me to believe that my friends love me for who I am and don't get annoyed with me.
This is not the way it should be for a 22-year-old girl.
Bullying has increased due to the increase of social media platforms. Bullying doesn't start at school, and it doesn't end at the end of the school day. Bullying is constant and teens feel they have nowhere to turn. Can you blame them? Home used to be a safe place for them, but now they go home and get made fun of over the internet. Where do they go? Who do they turn to? Their parents tell them to get thicker skin, not to worry about them, they're just jealous. How can a parent tell their child not to worry about something that doesn't stop?
Teens all over the country are getting bullied at home. Home is a safe place. Home is where you go to escape the mean people and feel safe. You should be able to post what you want on social media without the fear of someone screenshotting it and making fun of you. But that is not the way it is. Once a child is bullied, their outlook on life and friendships are altered forever.
Students who are bullied have been found to have higher levels of anxiety than students not involved. Students who reported that they were frequent victims of bullying showed significantly higher levels of anxiety than their peers.
Students that reported that they were bullied in a variety of ways showed a higher level of social anxiety than those bullied by one way.
Bullying is not a joke.
The fear never leaves and we need to take action about students being bullied everywhere.
Why is it so difficult to be nice to each other? You don't know what your classmate goes home to so leave them alone. Be nice. Keep your opinions to yourself and your jokes to your friends.
Bullying needs to stop now. Growing up for children should not be this difficult and we need to make it easier. We need to set an example of being nice, and caring for people. Going out of our way to do something simple for a stranger. Kindness in contagious and I hope you catch it before it's too late.
