Posted by fleeting flutterby on May 10, 2009, at 11:31:51
In reply to Bullying and subsequent psychosis, posted by SLS on May 9, 2009, at 6:03:56
> "Children who are bullied are more likely to develop psychotic symptoms in early adolescence and there is a dose effect, with repeated bullying associated with greater risk."
----flutterby: I imagine there are still many studies to come that will show how very devastating bullying can be. My heart breaks for every child that is going through this and for every adult that is left to deal with such painful memories.
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> "In the first prospective study to examine the relationship between childhood bullying and psychotic symptoms in early adolescence, investigators at the University of Warwick, in Coventry, the United Kingdom, found the risk for psychotic symptoms nearly doubled among children who were victims of bullying at age 8 or 10 years, independent of other psychiatric illness, family adversity, or the child's IQ, and increased nearly 4-fold when victimization was chronic or severe."----flutterby: my experience was very chronic-- I lived with the bully. :o( an older sister that was unrelenting in her degrading and emotional tortures-- as parents stood by saying nothing. I even became fearful of doors as she so often would hide behind them and jump out as I walked by and use her ear-shattering scream to cause me to fall to the floor in fear with my insides shaking. I was called stupid and loser daily. was told how no one will ever want to be my friend.
I was never taken to get help, I coped in the best way I could-- seeking isolation. by mid-school I was just the girl in the back of the room that never talked to anyone. never invited to a single party all through mid shcool and high school..... I learned to fear people.... no place was safe...... especially not home-- as I spent my time either in my room or out in the field all alone, near our house.
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> http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/702560?src=mpnews&spon=12&uac=41170BN
>---flutterby: darn-- looks like you have to be a member to read this. :o(
> I was bullied beginning at age 10. I believe this acted synergistically with other psychosocial stresses to precipitate bipolar disorder by age 17. Of course, I had the biological vulnerability for this to occur. Howver, even were there no such vulnerability, I know that the bullying led to some pretty severe psychological damage.<<---flutterby: I'm so sorry you were bullied. I do believe it can have long lasting effects on many.
flutterby-mandy
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