EFFECTS OF CYBER-BULLYING

EFFECTS OF CYBER-BULLYING

Cyber-bullying cause’s effects to the victims and also the perpetrators, the consequences may be of so many sorts, which include psychological and even mental effects.

Cyber-bullying leads the victim to increased stress, which could turn to depression in the case where there is continued exposer to bullying. Teenagers who have often experienced cyber bullying have been reported to end up suffering from depression. This stress affects their academics and works as most of the time; they are mentally disturbed, where they turn out to be socially isolated and lonely. In a study carried out in the US found out that 32% of victims who have faced depression have been traced with several signs and symptoms of stress. For the targets who were bullied online, they experienced severe chances of getting trauma symptomology, which could lead to mental illness.

Destruction of self-behaviour to the victims is another effect they include in the development of suicidal thoughts. In different researchers, scholars have proved that excessive threats to a human being can trigger suicidal thoughts, which could make an individual think of committing harmful acts. Cyber bullying is a dangerous encounter to the victims; it makes most of them have nervous habits as they live in fear due to repeated bullying. Another effect is most victims experience sleeping and appetite disorder, and different individuals respond differently when exposed to patronizing experiences like bullying. Most of them tend to lose their healthy appetite or even experience sleep disorders because of the mental disturbance these disorders affect individual health.

However, the perpetrators are also affected by the bullying activities. On of the effect is that is bullies continue to exercising cyber bully; they are prone to becoming delinquent and later in life be involved in dangerous criminal activities. When perpetrators are used to cyber-bullying, they can be quickly be promoted from being bullies to now engaging in hard-core delinquency. This ends up ruining the lives of so many teenagers as it affects their education and their relationship with their families.

CONCLUSION

Bullying can lead the perpetrators to engage in drug abuse as the act of harassing others also affected their emotional being, and they require drugs to give them more courage to carry out these unethical behaviours. Most bullies end up becoming addicts who change their lives; they also suffer from depression as they cannot concentrate on daily activities. Most perpetrators live with fear because they are not always sure that they cannot be identified, which could lead them to serious trouble.