I suffered and am still suffering bullying from my classmates, i am not a sophomore (10th grade) and i have been suffering since i was in 4th grade. i look a much more physically mature (large boobs, large butt, smart) then the rest of them students, and because of this they call me terrible names, like whore, slut, pornstar, prostitute, fake, etc. and for the past 6 years i have put up with it all. in December of 2012 i had a complete mental breakdown. My doctors told me i have depression, and it will never go away. the kids in my school still call me all of these terrible names, and they always will. unless there is a REAL change in this country about bullying.

i self bully.

i went thru anorexia.

i am semi anti social

i deny myself pleasure/enjoyment

and i dont like school

this is a definite problem 

and not everyone is bullied by another person, we also have to take a stand and fight against self hate and cutting.

When I was 10 there was a boy in our neighborhood who was 13 and constantly bullied everyone.  Taunting, pushing, punching, knocking books out of your hand, it was a daily fear you would run into him.

One day, after getting dropped off by the bus after school, I couldn't take the taunting any more and dropped my books and challenged to fight him.  My father had showed me a couple of judo moves and despite the difference in size, he was several inches taller and weighed much more than me, I was able to take him to the ground immediately.  We kind of just ended up rolling on the ground and it was finally broken up by the women who lived in the house in whose yard we had the scuffle.

While there was no apparent winner, he never bothered me much after that. The fact that I stood up for myself and showed him I would not be bullied anymore changed his behavior towards me.  

To this day, I always wonder what happened to this boy.  Someone told me he ended up in reform school, but I was never able to learn if that was the truth or just a rumor.

I put up with bullying far too long and in the end, did the only thing I was familiar with.  Today, I would handle it differently.

During the last 6 years, I have helped hundreds of students learn how to deal with bullies in a non-violent way.  Sharing my own personal experience helps others understand that bullying is all around and happens to many of us.  Help is available but you have to have the courage to ask for it.

This movie and program has done wonders to bring awareness about bullying and the need to stop it now!

Back when I was in jr high school 1 day when I was on my way home I spotted 3 bigger boys picking on a smaller boy til I stepped in to stop them only to have the boy I was standing up for take off while I was not watching him and the other 2 boys went chasing after him so in the end I failed to keep him safe in the end

In my juniour high years there was a boy in my class who always got bullied.  I tried to stand up for him a much as possible but he didn't want me to.  In grade 9 he became one of my best friends.  He still got bullied but he let me help him more.  He struggled with suicide and cutting and since i had struggled with it (still do) he was a lot more accepting of my help.  Towards the end of the year the bullying had slowed down a lot and he decided he wanted to become one of the 'cool' kids, meaning the ones that had bullied him.  His way of getting towards this goal was to become a bully, so he turned on me, his only friend.  He called me fat, ugly, stupid, and worthless. I don't think he understood that I was the only reason he had friends, he found it out then though.  I still wanted to help him, but I told him that I didn't trust him and that I probably never will.  For some weird reason he still has the guts to question why I don't trust him and when I tell him he laughs it off and says that is was funny. I am going into grade 12, my last year of seeing him.  

Having read the transcripts from the cell phone, Trayvon, 6'2", 170 lbs notices a short white guy following him. George Zimmerman is 5'7" 160 lbs, sim to Cint Eastwood to Robin Williams. "why are you following me?" is heard. A breathless response,"What are you  doing around here?" Sensible, non hostile answer, "I live here..up at 70.  My dad's girlfriend's place." Oh, Okay, thanks.  Instead, the sound of scuffling, Zim's back wet with grass flecks, smashed nose and bumps on his head.  Not bullying?

So it was happened 3 years ago. I was on 6 year in secondary school. I don't remember exactly on what year I was but I think this was 6 year.

I remember this stupid girls from 4 year, who tried to bullying me.  They started from ugly words to throwing plastic cutlery in school canteen and plastic bottle.

At the first days I just ignore this but they were becoming more and more annoying. I was really angry and little scare of that but I couldn't leave this like that.  After more days I spoke with my friends. But I had help just from one, who help me, who that girls are and I go to deputy director of school and one teacher who care about that bad pupils at the school. This took few days to find all that girls. 

So that girls had suffered the punishment for what they done and I didn't saw anyone of that girls anymore. And I solved my bullying problem for my leaving days from school.

We need to believe to our self to solve that problems, We need to be strong, We can't give up! We need fight with that! 

~Marta from Aberdeen UK

In the movies, high school isn't what it's played out to be. The outcast isn't left alone. The outcast is teased, bullied, the target of hate. In my school...I'm the outcast...and I'm always the center of the hate. There are other kids who are bullied but none like me. I always had the will to stand up to my bullies but I never had the voice to do it. I can talk, scream, sing, but I don't have the courage. I'm made fun of for my looks, the way I act, the way I talk, what I like and love, etc, etc. It gets to me sometimes. Several times I've wished for my life to end. I've contemplated cutting myself. But, I don't have the courage to do it. I promised myself that I would stand up and fight for what I believe in. As Andy Biersack once said "Stand up for what you believe in...even if it means standing alone." I find myself standing alone a lot. I have friends but most of them aren't true. I want everyone who is reading this to know...that it gets better. As Austin Carlile once said "It gets better. It always gets better. Life will never put you through more than you can handle." I know that once the razor blade runs over your skin, the physical pain knocks out the emotional pain. Yeah, I understand. Yeah, I've never cut but I know that the physical pain feels better then emotional. It sucks. I'm bullied, teased, pushed around, and people try to control me. I'm not the prettiest girl, I'm not the smartest, I'm not the skinniest. But I will tell you one thing....I'm strong. Not physically but mentally, emotionally, I am strong. I fight for what's right even if it means standing alone.

If you ever need help, if you ever need someone to talk to, advice, etc. I'm here. I practically know what everybody is going through.

Family problems.

Friend problems.

School problems.

And any other problems, I pretty much know what you're going through. Please don't do anything you'll regret.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

With much love,

Alyssa Prepodnik

I graduate this year at Springboro High and even though i'm not in high school anymore i'm going to share my story of bullying.Have a learning disability that effect my speech but I've been going a lot better now that you can't tell that i have one but people in my high school still make fun of me for that.In seventh grade there was a time that i thought that there is no hope for me after my best friend didn't want 2 be my friend anymore so i was planning 2 end my life but i got help for that.Most of time through 7th to 12th grade i make good friends and most of the time i most the friends that i made because they didn't care about me anymore because of the disability that i have and it's not my fault that i have it but people in school treated me that it is my fault by a lot of times ignoring me and there are times where they say something crapy about me. During my senior I didn't have any friends that are in my grade i only have friends that are in a different grade as me so it was hard and thats when when things got worse. I want to go to college after high school so during the last half of my senior i found out that i'm not going to college i'm going to the warren county career center because of my learning disability and i got depressed. Suddenly i have thoughts of ending my life again because i didn't have any hope but guess what i made it through high school and more happier i'm am now that is over. High school doesn't last forever it seems like it but really it's not.you got 2 stand up for yourself and thats how you stop it is standing up.     

I am French and I really suffered bullying from my peers at school. Because my dress style was different. Because I'm different. I was always alone, and occasionally some assholes had hit me, criticizing me all day. Now that I am surrounded and able to defend myself, and the attitudes of people around me has changed a bit, I'm ready to defend those who are rejected and criticized.