Bullying can cause both young adults and grown ups to develop depression, be psychologically scared for life, and then lead them to have suicidal thoughts and sometimes lead to suicide.

Bullying first gives a person a wide variety of emotions such as feeling trapped, hopeless, anger, withdrawal, and recklessness. These are all signs of depression which is the first stage of bullying, after all of those thoughts and emotions are going through ones mind, they are unable to think, function and process information down properly without feeling any of those previous emotions which leads to them developing a psychological problem. Now that he/she has developed this problem they begin to feel as though they don't belong anywhere in life, that they are taking up space, and that they are also alone and useless. This is where the suicidal thoughts come in. Because of those thoughts running through their minds, they get really worked up and so brutally emotionally hurt and scarred that they eventually decide to commit suicide.


Schools all around America has been reporting and keeping track of bullying and suicide rates. Because of that, the amount of bullying and suicides that have been done are declining slowly but surely.

An article from mass.gov stated that in the state of Boston, the percentage of high school students who reported being bullied at school has significantly declined from 23% in 2003 to 18% in 2011. For the first time, the report also included data on rates of cyber-bullying. In 2011, 14% of middle school students and 16% of high school students reported being victims of cyber-bullying. Because of the sagnificantly amount of reports, there has been a great amount of helpful people in each community supporting and helping students in great need of counciling and encouragment.

“I am encouraged that an increasing number of students feel like they have that type of safe learning environment, and we will continue partnering with both adults and our young people to cultivate norms of kindness and support in schools across the Commonwealth.” said Education Secretary Paul Reville.

In addition to anti-bullying efforts, Governors all throughout the u.s has created a Safe and Successful Youth Initiative is working with partners and providers to reduce youth violence and create safe communities for young people.