Essay about Anti Bullying Law

“When Anat, mother of a 15-year-old Dana, told her good friend about how her daughter was being CyberBullied on social media, the mom and her friend were outraged. Dana’s classmates created an Instagram page just so that they could make fun of her. Dana got off of all social media, never uses her phone, and doesn’t ever want to leave her room. The mother even described how her “daughter had been suffering from all the threats” (Israeli Government). Even after 2 years, people are still being CyberBullied on social media and other online platforms. People don’t have much care for the people who just want to enjoy their life. Although CyberBullying has become a bigger threat to society, officials have also come up with better ways to deal with cyberbullying. CyberBullying affects teens in a negative way. CyberBullying has a big negative impact on people even though there are newer ways to deal with it.

CyberBullying affects a teen’s mental health in a negative way. The amount of people who get depression or anxiety from CyberBullying shows just how much the issue is being taken care of. Law enforcement is trying to lower the numbers of cyberbullying but it doesn’t always work out. According to medLinePlus.gov, “Research suggests that children and youth who are bullied over time are more likely than those not bullied to experience depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. They also are more likely to be lonely and want to avoid school. There are many ways that parents and youth-serving adults can help prevent or address bullying.”(StopBullying). Bullying has been shown to have a serious negative effect on teens who bully and teens who are bullied. Teens can get depression because of them being bullied. Teens have also been known to get anxiety from bullying. Some of these problems can even last into their adulthood and scar them for the rest of their lives. This was shown in NCBI(National Center of Biomedical Information) when they did experiments with a bunch of kids. They would ask the kids questions once a year after the school year is over. People are feeling horrible because people are looking down on themselves. They think they aren’t really worth anything. They have these feelings of depression, anger, lowered self-esteem, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide, These people need the help that they deserve but aren’t getting it. They would list down anything that the kids reported like “the development of negative affective disorders, loneliness, anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and somatic symptoms”(NCBI). They also found that girls on average were a little bit more likely to be CyberBully than others and that men were almost twice as likely to bully someone. They came to the conclusion that. Even some people who bully others are being bullied themselves. According to MedlinePlus the main reason for bullying might be having troubles at home like violence. It also seems that people who bully do it because they are being bullied or they have friends who bully others and just want to fit in. Bullying is more serious than before since everybody is on their devices. People who end up with mental health issues from the bullying sadly feel like they are alone and they can’t do anything. Especially with the recent events of covid and the Russia-Ukraine war the number of people with depression and anxiety is on the rise. People who are bullied need to suffer through the bullying because there isn’t always someone to help them when they are in trouble. People have even committed suicide to try to get rid of the pain. They don’t talk to anyone because they think they’re alone and that they are a burden to everyone they talk to. People who cyberbully sometimes tell others to kill themselves. When they do that they are hurting the person. When a person commits suicide because of those messages it goes against (720 ILCS 512-34.5) which is otherwise known as an inducement to omit suicide. That just means that if you help someone or blatantly tell them to kill themselves and they commit suicide then they can be charged with inducement to commit suicide. When one purposely gets someone to commit suicide it is a class 2 felony (3-7 years prison and $25,000 fine). There are many specifics that I could go over but I won’t the thing is police take things like this very seriously. That is why it hurts to see on the news that someone committed suicide because of bullying or harassment. People are harassed and bullied and are never actually helped sometimes even though they reported it. Bullying is something massive that hurts teens' lives all the time and they never seek help because they think they’re alone.