The recent attacks on schools across Brazil have raised, once again, the discussion about bullying in childhood and adolescence. More than that, what are the effects of these attitudes in the short or long term, in adult life.
As much as it is common to hear phrases like "it wasn't like that in my time", "they took my foot and today I'm very well" or even “wow, today we can’t make fun of anything”, the consequences of bullying can be deeper than what we imagine. appears.
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People who suffered from jokes and some kind of discrimination in childhood or adolescence can grow up to become adults with little social skills, for example. In addition, they can also be inability to trust other people and get divorced more often.
Possible effects of childhood bullying in adulthood
- Depression;
- Low self-esteem;
- Unexplained anger;
- Little social tact;
- Anxiety(in different degrees);
- Inability to have quality relationships;
- More chance of getting divorced.
Finally, more recent studies show that people who have been bullied are more likely to attempt suicide as they get older.
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In addition, it should be noted that there are a range of effects of bullying on people from the LGBTQIA community.+. By being intimidated with insults about sexuality, the child can grow up with serious relationship and self-acceptance problems.
However, it is also important to stress that there is still not much scientific data on the effects of bullying specifically against LGBTQIA+ people, given that the subject only started to be discussed recently.
Treatment and understanding
Psychotherapeutic monitoring of children and adolescents suffering from bullying. In this way, they can understand their feelings of anger and non-belonging so that it does not spill over into their social lives or into violence against themselves or others.
Graduated in Social Communication at the Federal University of Goiás. Passionate about digital media, pop culture, technology, politics and psychoanalysis.
