Bullying Part 1

2–3 minutes

Table of Contents

What is classed as bullying

There are many types of bullying which include:

Verbal (e.g. name calling, taunting, threatening to cause harm)
Emotional
Sexual
Online/Cyber (putting offensive or threatening comments or photos on social media, calling someone names)
Indirect
Social (e.g. spreading rumours, leaving someone out on purpose)
Physical e.g. spitting, hitting, pulling hair, pinching someone else’s things)

They will find something they don’t like about you and use that against you.

Here are some reasons why someone may bully someone else for:

Jealousy
To feel better about themselves
Anxiety
Want to be seen as strong around friends (this could be from low self-esteem or seem as a weak member in the group)
Have troubles at home
Take attention off them
In the need for control
Feeling good about encouraging people to bully other people
Think they are more important then other people
Insecurity
Lack of empathy
Having challenging behaviour
Having aggressive/ wrong role models (this will make them think that bullying behaviour is normal)

But none of these should be a reason to bully others.

They invade your personal space
They speak down to you
They play the victim card
Their tone of voice
They need to be the centre of attention
They point the blame to someone else
They are two faced (they are nice around other people, but not to you)
They don’t have many friends (this is because other people can see who they really are and dislike them)
They make you feel small and not important

A lot of these characteristics are also narcissistic characteristics.