Bullying victims often show signs of distress such as depression, anxiety, and a drop in academic performance. Ethnic minorities, lower socioeconomic status, and physically smaller people are often targeted. Signs include changes in behavior, isolation, and loss of personal property. Identifying warning signs is crucial to prevent bullying.
Victims of bullying often show signs of distress that indicate they are being bullied. Such signs may include depression, withdrawal, anxiety, a drop in academic performance, or even a drop in regular attendance. Certain types of people often become bullied, and these people are generally somewhat of a minority. Ethnic minorities, religious minorities, people of lower social or economic status, homosexuals, or simply physically smaller people are often targeted for bullying, although anyone can be bullied without falling into one of these categories. Quickly identifying the behaviors and warning signs associated with bullying is essential to prevent it from happening on a regular basis.
The characteristics of victims of bullying can vary on a case-by-case basis, but most often bullying focuses on children who are different from others in some way. This can mean a socioeconomic difference — a particular student has been known to receive food stamps or free food stamps, for example — or a difference in race, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, or physical makeup. Physically and mentally handicapped students are often targeted for bullying, and in many cases, victims of bullying experience name-calling, taunting, or even physical violence from more than one bully. It’s not uncommon for groups of people to bully just one or two people.
The indicators that victims of bullying will show vary from person to person, but some common behaviors that they may exhibit include a change in eating habits, a decline in school or work performance, a change in daily routine: walking to school for a different path, for example — depression, anxiety and withdrawal. A person ostracized by classmates or colleagues is likely to feel threatened, thus encouraging them to withdraw from groups and isolate themselves. In some cases, bullies can create a situation where isolation is the only option for the victim. The victim can become more introverted, melancholic and, in the most serious cases, suicidal.
Another common indicator of bullying is the loss of personal property. When a victim’s possessions go missing, a version of physical bullying may take place. A bully could steal or destroy the victim’s belongings, or he could threaten to take or destroy those belongings, prompting the victim to hide them or leave them at home. A threat of physical violence against one’s person or property is a serious and usually quite obvious version of bullying that commonly occurs among boys, although girls can also participate in this type of behavior.
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