There is a huge link between anxiety and bullying.

This week is anti-bullying week. 

I want to highlight the correlation between people that get bullied and anxiety.

Over 70% of children experience bullying of some sort during their school years. 

This can have a devastating impact on the life of the individual, and not just at the time it is happening, but for many years after.

There is a huge link between anxiety and bullying. 

Bullying in any situation is humiliating, hurtful and can leave a person with deep emotional scars.    

Many of my clients who I have treated for anxiety were bullied at some point, either at school or in the workplace, even some in the home. 

It's no surprise that bullying has a direct impact on a person's self esteem and self worth. 

If a child is bullied during their imprinting years, it creates or adds to their belief about themselves that they are not good enough. Every client that I’ve ever seen owns some kind of belief that they are not good enough or they are unworthy, or they are unlovable.

Lack of self-worth carries a whole host of issues.

For example, the less self-worth you have the more likely you are to get into an abusive relationship. The less self-worth you have the more likely you are to not get the necessary support you need to rebalance your mental and emotional health. 

The sad fact is, so many adulthood problems are the cause of acts of mindless kids, for a whole host of mindless reasons. 

You can often see a pattern in people's lives where they were bullied in school, only to then get bullied in the workplace and then to have a bullying partner.

This creates massive ongoing anxiety and physical ailments too.

When I treat clients for anxiety, I always work on their self-worth, their self-esteem and their inner confidence.

In my opinion, something we can all do to reverse the awful impact that bullies have is on us is to work on forgiveness. 

Hurt people hurt. Bullies treat others badly as they are in pain themselves.

The best thing to do is to send them love and compassion (I know that’s often easier said than done), but it will be the best thing that you can do to heal yourself.

You will have grown and learned from that situation and as long as you are out of the cycle, you can be grateful that you are much stronger now.

If you have been affected by bullying and wish to heal, then please get in touch.