"I am going to kill myself... no one understands me and I get abused. So what do I live for (qtd. McWilliams, Thegrio)"? Words from a sad, confused, and hurt 11-year-old, Jordan Gonzalez. You may think "What can cause an 11 year old to want to end his life"? It may be hard to presume such an answer for a child in a suicidal scenario but, take a guess. The answer is only one word, eight simple letters, and three syllables long. Reckoned the term? Well, I am here to inform you just what that is. Bullying. Only one word, eight simple letters, and three syllables long. On the contrary to its condense term, bullying is a powerful and tormenting experience an individual can go through. This paper will expound on the various forms of bullying such …show more content…
This type of bullying can affect how they view themselves psychologically. It can lead to low self-esteem, known as depression and other problems. "Involvement in bullying can also have long-lasting, detrimental effects months or even years after the bullying occurs" (Hertz, Donato V. 53). In some cases, verbal bullying can bother the victim so bad that it can lead them to depression and to desperately escape that they turn to substance abuse or even committing suicide."Youth who bully others, who are bullied, or who both bully and are bullied, this involvement is correlated with poor mental and physical health and engagement in other risk behaviors.(Hertz, Donato V. 53). " Words are more powerful than we …show more content…
Facebook? Well, nowadays, anything is possible. With today's advancement of technology, bullying have entered the virtual world which is public and has a larger audience. Cyber bullying is when the bully uses a technological device to humiliate and insult the bullied victim. Bullies can use text messages, emails, social medias, posing as someone else and befriends the bullied victim to get humiliating or secret information out of them, posting embarrassing pictures of the person online on social media and/or websites. Rumors is also a subcategory of cyber bullying. Conventional gossiping was done person to person, "hearing it through the grape-vine" as they say. However, the bully can just post a rumor without needing it to spread by people. All can see at once by the click of a button; spreading like