Bullying is a serious hazard to physical and mental health and should never be ignored.
Bullying can cause psychiatric injury (which should be carefully distinguished from endogenous mental illness), with a risk of depression and suicide (which some have started to call “bullycide”). The risk arises from the nature of bullying in which trauma to a person’s mental and physical well-being is repetitive and persistent, leading to symptoms typical of complex post-traumatic stress disorder. Bullying can be hard for teachers and workplace managers to detect, because Continue reading