Bullying/Teasing/Abuse

Yes
Yes
I have been cussed at pushed around made fun of and I hated it. I generally don't like being around people I don't trust easily either. I have been bullied all my school life I was quiet and small in stature so I'm a target. I have delt with depression self harm and suicide since third grade. In middle school I would return with violence because I was starting to get bigger and I knew how to hurt people back.

1. Yes.

2. Yes. (Probably.)

3. The bullying left me unable to trust other people. Although I believe that it has made me a stronger person overall. Trust seems to have a significant role in society, although I think I am better off not trusting the majority of people.

I took the test a while ago, but have been working on this page. You might find it interesting. It's about bullies and someone with DID.

http://dx-dissociative-identity-disorde ... ntity.html

1) Yes

2) Yes

3) The memories of what was said haunt me and come back at random when they feel like it. I also feel it plays a role in my self-esteem being low.

Yes. Yes. Bullied and teased mentally and emotionally abused. My first memory is being bullied n teases in 6th grade (I don't remember anything before that) my dad mentally and emotionally abused me.

1) Yes

2) Yes in a way

3) verbally abused/teased/bullied/humiliated by many peers at school, victimised by teachers and i a way by my mum. i don't like to say that about my mum but it's not to be ignored. i feel she can be a very rigid and hard and unfogriving person at times and this can be really dehumanising making me feel like i am to blame for everything. i know she doesn't intend bad for me really but it's just the way she is. I have learnt to deal with it a bit better now though. but all this especially bullying at school but definitely also my mum led me to have very low self confidence for years, loathing myself and believing i had nothing positive to contribute just because i didn't fit in with other people's expectations. I can totally see why the kids at school teased me, I was never 'normal' I'm the first to admit I behaved quite strange in some ways (that's another issue), and people can be cruel and really unaccepting of differences. While I like to believe I have largely over come the negative effects of this I certainly experience a degree of social anxiety still, though this has improved over time. I believe this can be at least partially attributed to bullying. But I am party greatful (sounds odd I know) for all this, because it has taught me to value and respect other people and to always think about the impact of my actions on others (although maybe sometme too much !), and this is an invaluabe gift that will be with me for life, which has and will continue to enable me to make positive contributions to other people's lives and in many ways has informed how I look at the world.

Question #1) Were you bullied, teased, and/or physically, mentally and/or emotionally abused any time during 1st - 12th grade? Please answer YES or NO.

YES.

Question #2) If you were bullied, teased, and/or physically, mentally and/or emotionally abused any time during 1st - 12th grade, are you experiencing negative effects of it still today? Please answer YES or NO.

YES.

Question #3) Please elaborate on the extent of the damage done to you in as few sentences as possible. If you prefer to give greater detail, please PM me with your reply.

I was bullied from preschool onward. I had few friends in that time. I feel that it made it easier for criminals to pick me as their 'victim', as I was already a victim and it wasn't hard to tell. I am a multiple time victim of crime. I am on disability and will be for life.

1. Yes
2. Yes

3. I was teased from elementary school to high school. Sometimes by my friends, but most often by people I didn't know and who didn't know me.

I feel that I still view myself as inferior to others and intimidated by strangers. Also, I feel that I have engrained in my mind the idea that some people are "better" than others, even though I don't actively believe that, it is engrained in the back of my mind when I am in social situations or surrounded by lots of people. I am also afraid to assert myself.

Question #1) Were you bullied, teased, and/or physically, mentally and/or emotionally abused any time during 1st - 12th grade?
Yes.
Question #2) If you were bullied, teased, and/or physically, mentally and/or emotionally abused any time during 1st - 12th grade, are you experiencing negative effects of it still today?
Yes.
Question #3) Please elaborate on the extent of the damage done to you in as few sentences as possible.

It started in the 7th grade, I got bullied by my entire class (30 kids), even the teachers who thought I was in a cult(?!). They thought it was okay to bully me because I didn't dress like them, or listen to the same music, and because I had my own opinion. "Why can't you just be normal?" I heard this question a million times, and started to believe there was something wrong with me. It resulted in major depression, anxiety, self-abuse and anorexia. I'm 16 now and I'm still fighting it, but it's getting better day by day.

Yes.

Yes.

The extent of my childhood abuse was all encumbacing. I did not learn social skills, always felt inferior to others, never learned to trust others, and was isolated. However I never was bullied. My childhood friends had an understanding of my life at home and also I look back at that timeframe and think that when I had the rare chance to be out with my friends I always made sure I had fun and forgot about the troubles of homelife for a short while. I also could become aggressive if need be ..a protection I suppose .. when I was away from the abuse/neglect at home I wasn't going to allow anyone to take advantage of me or make fun of me. All my inferior complexes came from within, how I felt about myself, the shame of being abused, inability at that time to get away from it. In adulthood I feel that I can become stronger and learn forgiveness for some of what I went thru as a child. Children back then were "seen and not heard", "eat whats on your plate or starve" , "do as your told", and it may not exactly be "abusive" in every instance. Sometimes the family budget only allowed certain luxuries (new clothes, school field trips, picture day, bag lunchs) and those items usually are the pivotal points which instigate bullying. One other factor is if you had older siblings and how well were they liked in school. In past days there wasn't counseling, DV shelters, hotlines, internet, or any other outreach programs as there are today. Anyways, I think overall there is part of my "little girl" that cries out but I'm trying to become a stronger adult woman. I like the songs by Katy Perry - Wide Open and Madonna - Oh Father. They both have helped me heal my wounds.