Persuasive Essay About Bullying

Bullying is an issue that has been going on since the beginning of time. We need to take a stance against this matter. It has happened in the past and is still continuing to happen. Let us stop all of this negativity and do something about this, so that we do not bring this into our future. People who bully usually feel insecure about themselves. It makes the bully feel better about their struggles that they might be facing or their insecurities they might be trying to overcome. Because a bully may often feel powerless in an area of their own life, he or she may seek to control others to gain some sense of control in his or her own life. Most bullies do not consider or demonstrate a concern about how the victim feels. All the bully is seeking

However, they do attempt to manipulate the emotions of others. This gives them a sense of emotional control to help compensate for their inability to control their own emotional impulses and feelings. Since a bully cannot control his or her own emotions or struggles in life, the bully likes to refocus his or her attention on others.

One reason why people bully others may be the lack of positive attention they might be receiving from their friends, parents, or even teachers. Another reason why people bully is because of their own frustrations, hurts, and struggles. Some bully because they learned it from others or someone else. Playing violent video games or even TV shows can cause a person to want to become a bully

Bullying results in a great deal of anxiety and depression for the victim, and in some cases, even death. I know I personally felt a lot of these things when I was bullied. I had a lot of anxiety, and I had no idea half of the time how to even feel. I would try to act like I was fine but on the inside I would be freaking out. I would even have a hard time breathing normal. I did not even know anxiety was a disorder until I was in high school. I had depression also. I did not want to get out of bed because I did not feel good enough or like I would ever be pretty. I felt like I was not wanted by anybody, especially at school. I did have suicidal thoughts, but in middle school I actually tried to take my own life. Now, it was not that my plan did not work. I just found myself not being able to do everything that I had planned so that I would not be alive anymore. I felt like God was telling me that I could not end my life and He was not done with me yet, so I was not able to finish my task. But I when I wanted to end my life, most of it had to do with bullying. There were other reasons but bullying was the huge one for me that I could physically and mentally not handle my own life anymore. Getting bullied in the past still affects me today. I have a hard time even looking at myself in the mirror. Although I am getting better, it is