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.
(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.