Hi Winga,
Welcome to the Beyond Blue community.
The site has changed recently and I am not sure where to find things any more. There have been a lot of posts in the past about bullying. There used to be a section where you could key in a word like say "Bullying" and up would come references to that topic.
I suggest you use the Chat Online service, as the people responding to that will be able to give you a lot of advice on how to cope with bullying.
Hopefully someone else reading this will also be able to instruct you on where you can locate the other posts relating to bullying.
I was bullied as a child at school and later on in life by various people. The thing I needed to learn was to not allow the person being the bully to know they had upset me.
Once a person feels they have some kind of hold on you or control over you, then they will feel like they can keep going with their tactics.
One of my nieces just walked right up to a group of girls bullying her, she told them she was not at all interested in what they had to say and she would not be wasting her time listening to them. For her that worked well.
Another time she actually confronted a couple of young men who were making fun of her size, she told them she didn't appreciate their comments and they were uncalled for. Those guys left the restaurant.
I know that it is not always easy to stand up to the bullies in our lives, but it can provide us with a great sense of pride, self esteem and empowerment when we do!
Hope some of this helps.
Cheers for now from Mrs Dools.
