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According to Medical Xpress:
The negative social, physical and mental health effects of childhood bullying are still evident nearly 40 years later, according to new research by King's College London. The study is the first to look at the effects of bullying beyond early adulthood, and is published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
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Croll's Query:
If tin whistles are made of tin, what are foghorns made of?
(Score: 1) by Magic Oddball on Sunday April 20 2014, @05:51AM
I can say that your theory doesn't fit my personal experience with being bullied.
I was a friendly, well-liked kid with strong self-esteem, happy to take a casual leadership role (but not bossy), and quick to step in if I saw bullying start with the younger kids. That was despite problems like having birth defects that required frequent painful procedures & tests, being incontinent until age 9, having an emotionally abusive (prone to flipping between "you're the most wonderful ever" to "there's nothing worth loving in you") mother, and quite a bit more.
The bullying didn't start until 7th grade (age 12). A few jocks began saying obnoxious things, then when I didn't react, they began tripping/pinching/shoving/etc. me, then the next phase was grabbing my chest/ass, and finally whispering sexual threats. I didn't react outwardly as I've never cared for whiners or crybabies, so that wasn't it. Based on what one of them said in an apology many years later, he had been secretly full of rage at the world due to home problems and I stood out just enough as a convenient target.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 23 2014, @02:22AM
They probably liked you and were jealous of you (you seemed confident and successful) but at the same time (though very aggressively) acknowledged your worthiness). I would call that harassment not bullying (which doesn't make it good).
If you are told directly or undirectly you are unworthy by your peers is a different kind of bullying which is about excluding and showing you how unloveable you are. Together with showing or telling you that you have no right to have a safe space is what is truly nerve wracking. And this type of bullying searches for people who are weak already and different. Those who fit not in are a frequent target of this.