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| Bullying Overview |  Lots of teenagers meet with such problem as school bullying, which can serious emotional scars for the victims if continued long enough and is severe enough.
Bullying means that a person or group try to threaten or harm someone who is weaker. Bullying can involve a great range of activities. They are:
 hitting
pushing
intimidating or threatening
darkly teasing or name-calling
spreading rumors about another
stealing or damaging individual belongings
inciting others to reject or exclude someone from a class
annotating with inappropriate sexual comments.
The internet has become a recent instrument of the bully. She or he can exasperate the victim by posting intimidating or offensive information about a teen on a website or sending threatening e-mails. It is obvious that the bully doesn’t always have to use physical aggression to hurt its victim. In actual fact, verbal harassment is used twice as often as physical aggression in bullying.
Bullying that lasts for any length of time can have negative effects on the victims’ self-esteem and feelings of self-worth. Due to their fear and anxiety, these effects include:
becoming afraid of talking about their situation and suffering in silence;
the probability of becoming socially isolated, leading to depression;
blaming themselves for the bullying;
having difficulty concentrating in school and even avoiding attending school;
sometimes, the victim may begin to carry a weapon to school for protection. Some victims have actually out of desperation committed suicide.
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