Notice that your health is suffering such as changes in your appetite, difficulty sleeping or tension headaches

No longer enjoy the things you used to enjoy and drop out of activity groups or clubs.

If you have been bullied long term you may need specialised help from someone like a counsellor or therapist. Talk to someone as soon as possible. A parent or your family doctor will be able to help you find someone who can support you with your feelings of depression, stress or anxiety.

Long-term bullying can lead to depression and feelings that you are worthless. Some of these effects can last for a long time, even into adulthood.

Students may not report that they or their friends bully because they don't want to lose the power they gain through controlling others.

Students may not report more subtle, indirect, and relational types of bullying (such as deliberately excluding peers or spreading rumors) because they don't realize that these are also unfair, unequal ways to treat others.

Students may not report being victims of bullying because it makes them feel ashamed, afraid, and powerless. Over time, they may come to feel they deserve to be bullied. This may be particularly true of children in fourth grade and up.

Fear of retailiation might be especially the case about reporting popular students who bully. There is evidence that well-liked and successful children can be the most skilled at bullying and at escaping detection.

specific groups have an increased risk of suicide, including American Indian and Alaskan Native, Asian American, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth. This risk can be increased further when these kids are not supported by parents, peers, and schools. Bullying can make an unsupportive situation worse.

Many issues contribute to suicide risk, including depression, problems at home, and trauma history.

However, most youth who are bullied do not have thoughts of suicide or engage in suicidal behaviors. 

Get into fights, vandalize property, and drop out of school

Decreased academic achievement—GPA and standardized test scores—and school participation. They are more likely to miss, skip, or drop out of school.

The most effective policies to prevent bullying will also look beyond just schools to include parents, coaches and other adults who are regularly involved with children, said Megan Moreno, a specialist in adolescent health at Seattle Children’s Research Institute.

Bullying is one of the most common forms of peer aggression in schools, and both perpetrators and victims may experience mental health problems linked to this behavior such as anxiety, depression or social isolation, Hatzenbuehler and colleagues note in JAMA Pediatrics.

nti-bullying policies in most U.S. states aim to protect kids against abuse from their peers in school and online,

Meanwhile, girls also experience sexual bullying more than boys. For example, girls are more likely to have rumors spread about sexual activity regardless of the validity of the claims. And, they are more likely to be on the receiving end of sexual messages or harassment from boys.

Girls tend to bully other girls indirectly or by using relational aggression. As a result, they resort to verbal assaults, ostracizing, spreading rumors and gossiping – the epitome of mean girl behavior. Moreover, girls disguise their bullying and act in more passive aggressive ways which makes girl-on-girl bullying is much more difficult to spot.

When it comes to bullying behavior, boys tend to be more physically aggressive and impulsive than girls. As a result, they will attack other people when they show weakness

Prejudicial bullying is based on prejudices tweens and teens have toward people of different races, religions or sexual orientation

Sexual bullying consists of repeated, harmful and humiliating actions that target a person sexually. Examples include sexual name-calling, crude comments, vulgar gestures, uninvited touching, sexual propositioning and pornographic materials

Perpetrators of verbal bullying use words, statements and name-calling to gain power and control over a target. Typically, verbal bullies will use relentless insults to belittle, demean and hurt another person.

Physical bullying is the most obvious form of bullying. It occurs when kids use physical actions to gain power and control over their targets.

Relational aggression is a sneaky and insidious type of bullying that often goes unnoticed by parents and teachers

When a tween or a teen uses the Internet, a cell phone or other technology to harass, threaten, embarrass or target another person, this is called cyberbullying

Perpetrators of verbal bullying use words, statements and name-calling to gain power and control over a target

Physical bullying is the most obvious form of bullying. It occurs when kids use physical actions to gain power and control over their targets

There are certain places where bullying occurs the most, and these are often areas where adults are not present—areas like hallways, bathrooms, playgrounds, and busses. When an adult is present, children feel safer, and bullying behaviors are less likely to occur.

Not many people choose to reinforce good behavior because good behavior is expected. This is a problem. When a child is always getting into trouble, then “catching them being good” is positive and reinforcing (Mahoney, 2012). Pointing out the good behavior acknowledges and reinforces that behavior.

The rules and the consequences for breaking the rules should be clearly stated

Staff should be able to distinguish between teasing and bullying. According to Sweeting and West (2001), teasing is reported more frequently than bullying because teasing is done to irritate or provoke another with persistent distractions or other annoyances

One of the most powerful and effective actions any school or community can do is teach young people and adults to be bystanders who take positive action to stop and prevent bullying.

Parents, teachers and community members are also teaching young people how to treat each other with kindness and respect. These schools and communities consistently show children that they are valued, respected and safe.

One way to ensure that bullying incidents aren’t being overlooked is to ask young people directly about their experiences.

Send a clear message. Across the nation, schools, youth organizations and even local businesses are working together to send a clear message that bullying is not okay and will not be tolerated.

Thousands of schools across the U.S. rushed last year to stop feeding their students meat that contained the ammonia-treated beef, known by industry as lean finely textured beef.