Dealing With Bullying

Bullying is something that everyone deals with throughout their lives.

Whether its cyber, physical, verbal, at one point or another, everyone experiences 'bullying'.

I'm lucky in that I've not been severely bullied throughout my school life, but I have experienced cyber bullying on several occasions and been subjected to name-calling and general nastiness throughout the whole of school. 

But sadly, many people experience bullying on a day to day basis and in more severe forms. 

Most of us will turn a blind eye to bullying and not get involved because that's the easier thing to do, stay out of it and mind your own business, right? 

I've done Primary School and High School and from my experiences here are my suggestions...

Top 5 Tips To Deal With Bullying:

1. Don't be afraid to tell people- keeping things to yourself can be really difficult especially if there is something upsetting you, tell someone. You never know, the situation might be easily sorted out with the help of other people.

2. Try not to respond to name-calling and cyber bullying- it can be near impossible to ignore people and 'be the bigger person' but it is often better, for one, then you've done nothing wrong and can't be blamed for anything. Secondly then if the bully gets no retaliation there's no entertainment in winding you up and they'll get bored. 

3. Know that it will end- you won't have to deal with being bullied forever, people change and as you get older people grow up (I KNOW, MADNESS BUT TRUST ME). Don't think that this is how your life will be, by telling someone it may end quicker than you expected!

4. If you see someone being bullied, help- if you can see someone being bullied whether in front of you or online, help them, show them that not everyone is against them. There's nothing worse than feeling like you're on your own. If you ever feel like that, chances are you're not on your own. More people need to stick up for each other.

5. Know you're the better person in the situation- if someone finds entertainment in spending their time ruining your day, they probably aren't very happy themselves. They literally have nothing better to do..bless.  People ehy!

I haven't experienced bullying to a severe degree and I consider myself lucky so don't assume that I'm experienced in this field! I just hope that these pointers will help you stay happy if you are in that position, and will make other people realise that everyone needs to do more to help prevent people feeling on their own. 

'Everything will be all right in the end, if its not all right, its not the end'

stay smiling!

'til next time

Hannah xxxx