Bullying

I made audacious use of my values to annihilate tension — My son faced a bully at school. He is a toddler & a sensitive child. He probably scores higher on the anxiety scale. Which is natural. I, his mother, have history. Anxiety & depression made their homes in my birth family when I was growing up. The flip side was that we were also an intelligent family. We were a weird…

In recent days, a bullying incident in Hainan has caused widespread outrage among netizens. In the video, a girl who was beaten was forced to kneel and begged the attackers for mercy. We thought that these attackers would be severely punished, but the outcome disappointed us. …

How I Went From the Honour Roll to the Smoking Section — In my last year of high school, I was voted most likely to end up in an insane asylum. Small wonder, since I was going crazy there. We’ve all heard the sad story before. …

We all like each other and pretend that our company is a big family. Bullying lurks in the background. — We recommend partnership and shortening the distance at work. What’s wrong with that? Well, the fact that excessive closeness can be combined with implicit contempt. As early as the 1970s. Richard Sennett, the eminent American sociologist, wrote about the ‘decline of the public man’, with a view to the then…

No one chooses their appearance We aren’t alike And never will be That’s just a fact of life Bullies are cowards Bullies are ignorant They have so much insecurity in their lives That they find their lousy job a survival matter Their words poison the rooms of your body You break down in tears Asking yourself, “What’s wrong with you?” They cause so much pain Get behind me and never come back Don’t let bullies win over you They may be 10 against you They will flee 70 times It’s not your fault Only losers bully.

I’ve been on the shit end of the how many fingers am I holding up game since I was four-years-old. Unlike a lawyer who doesn’t ask a question they don’t know the answer to, you wouldn’t be asking me unless you knew I couldn’t get it right. No, I can’t…

How Ketamine treatment enabled me to re-live a traumatic experience and find self-compassion 30 years after the event. — The second time of my life I had a panic attack, I was around 10 years old. I was in the Principal’s office at a school in Norway. I don’t remember how I got there, or what had happened. As the red mist of anger was dissipating, a number of…