Being bullied in childhood is no longer considered harmless or an almost inevitable part of growing up. Statistics show the devasting lingering affects on adults who had been bullied as children. We now know that things do not “get better with age.”
Researchers from the University of Warwick and Duke University Medical Center 1400 North Carolina adults who had been bullied between the ages of 9 and 13 and evaluated their health every year until age 16, and then again at 19, 21, and 24 to 26.
Results of the study shows that bully-victims are:
- far more prone to obesity and serious health problems as adults than their peers
- more likely to have trouble forming long-term friendships and holding steady jobs
- six times as likely as their peers to smoke cigarettes, suffer from diabetes, and develop cancer
- six times more inclined to develop a psychiatric disorder
- more likely to be arrested for felonies
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The lingering, devastating impact of bullying – The Week Magazine
