Bullycide is a direct consequence of depression. The powerlessness to put a stop to being bullied by peers is what produces firstly despair, which rapidly develops into depression. When life seems to be doomed to failure, bullycide is quite often the final answer for those who see no other way out.

Bullying is now a routine occurrence within education establishments and it usually starts in an unobvious way when the bullies begin their torture on someone who is not likely to be able to easily defend themselves. Such bullies will steal from their prey, poke fun at them in front of others, make threats towards them, and harass them on the way to and from school.

Although there are many schools with measures in place to manage this sort of behavior, there are no where near enough counsellors and professionals to cope with large amounts of bullies in any one school. Furthermore, once the children are out of the school?s jurisdiction, teachers and other staff cannot do anything to help someone about to be assailed by a bully.

Bullycide and depression are the by-products of officials, parents, and other professional?s failure to spot and at once deal with the situation as it arises. Bullies never get told on by their so called friends so the one being bullied is completely helpless, sure of repercussions if seen asking anyone for help. So which way does the victim turn?

It is likely that the parents of the child are both out working all day so the child has no option but to walk home from school alone or maybe take the school bus. The child lives in fear of being attacked on the way home. He or she may have had their jacket stolen by the bully on a particularly freezing cold day following an altercation within the school grounds, involving the bully delivering blows to the child. Many attacks may not be seen by anyone else as they take place out of sight, maybe in the bathrooms or in less used areas of the school.

Schoolwork turns into an unattainable task as focus is lost when the child is not eating and sleeping healthily due to worrying about being bullied. The child will become insular and maintain a lone existence, in the hope that he or she will not have the price to pay when the bullying eventually becomes public knowledge.

The child will avoid occasions when the family get together. He or she will seem on edge, frightened and indifferent to others. The bubble the child is living in becomes smaller and smaller until the one thought in his or her mind is the only way out they can see.

As the despair increases and the tension mounts the child experiences so much deep pain. No longer able to think straight, he or she may just simply not attend school but wander the streets, with suicide utmost on his or her mind. If the child has access to the internet at home whilst the parents are out at work, time may be spent searching for ways to carry out their suicide attempt.

Finally, the victim, with no vision of a way out chooses to commit bullycide; self-inflicted suicide based on the never-ending and inevitable torture of being a victim of bullying.

So if you see any of these signs in your child, acting out of the ordinary, frightened, not sleeping and eating correctly, arriving home from school looking scared or disheveled you really must get involved. Gently prize out of the child whether or not he or she is being bullied and make sure you protect your child by putting an end to this torment as soon as possible. So what if you have to take you child from this school and place them in a different one? It is not the end of the world, but it may be the end of your world if you see that your child needs help and you choose to ignore it or in fact you are not even aware of the situation in the first place.

Bullycide and depression; the latter is the beginning, the former is the consequence.

© By Mandy-Jane Clarke

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