With each passing day, I’m recognizing how bullying is EVERYWHERE—emotional,
verbal, physical, spiritual. And, on the whole, most of us are seeing only a tiny portion of it. Tiny.
It’s so common that we don’t see it as out of the
ordinary, so it’s accepted as normal. And then we don’t see it at all. That is an alarming deception, when that which is common becomes normal and then not even a source of concern.
But kids who are bullied—an epidemic in this country—have a MUCH high incidence of depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem, often for life. And then we worry about TREATING depression, anxiety, and self-esteem—with therapy, drugs, government programs—without addressing one of the known and prominent causes.
Collectively, we are not all that bright, would you say?
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