Bullying: The Third-Leading Cause Of Death

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Bullying is the third leading cause of death for young people. There have been large amounts of children and teenagers dying due to the cause of bullying. About 4,400 victims of bullying have died each year, according to CDC (Center of Disease Control) Bullying can physically and emotionally hurt you. Bullying can cause a long-term damage of self-esteem, depression, increased mental health problems, and even suicide. Bullying is a serious problem that needs to be taken care of. It can get so serious to where people have the want and need to leave the world and everything behind. Bullying can literally change and ruin a person’s life, it can even end a person’s life.
There are many types of bullying. There’s physical bullying, cyber bullying,
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Depression negatively affects how you feel, the way you think, and the way you act. As bullying takes place on a victim, it can cause them to have depression. Bullying can make you feel like you don’t belong and make you think that you’re alone. One day, you can be happy and so joyful, but as soon as you begin to get bullied, you can feel so miserable. It can also start making you think that you aren’t good enough or make you think that you need to change your body. Bullying can cause panic attacks and eating …show more content…
The things bullies say to bully victims can actually hurt them to where they feel the need to leave. It doesn’t only affect victim, but it also affects the victim’s family. Bullies can affect families also because when they lose someone they love or when they lose a son or a daughter, it’s heart breaking. Families would feel guilty and feel like it was their fault because they didn’t know that their child was getting bullied. Some families might recover from the suicide, but some families might never recover, and it’s all because of the actions a person took to crueling hurt a human being for their