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Joycie Brantley
Professor Long
SPCH-S122
24 March 2018
Interpersonal Communication Challenge: Bullying & Depression
During my investigation about the challenges with being bullied and the result as depression I
have discovered that most authors (that I’ve research) focused a lot on the psychological impact
these sufferings held in an individual’s life. Such as, the explanation on where the disturbance
stems from, why being bullied can result to depression and possible resolutions to overcome the
desolation.
Although, I couldn’t locate every element about depression from bullying, my purpose for this
document is to emphasize on the knowledge I’ve discovered, basically to bring awareness. This
topic is such a unique topic to discuss because I have suffered from being bullied in school and
work, and I’m sure many others can relate to being bullied. I have arranged my research paper
into 3 sections; what is bullying-depression, how suffering from bullying result to depression and
why, and possible resolution/preventions.
What is Depression?
To begin, with the destructive outcomes of being bullied and now having the result be depression,
it causes a lag in a person’s daily lifestyle. The origin of depression has been described as a mental
health/mood disorder that stems from afflicting signs such as how a person handles life daily; the
way they think, feel, sleep, eat, etc. Being bullied can cause a person emotion to sink into mild to
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severe depression, the depressed person usually show signs of loss of interest in day-to-day events
resulting in a substantial diminishing mood (Re:mind Depression & Bipolar Support).
How can bullying result to depression?
When you are not sure of yourself and your reason for living your mind can convince you to attach
to the words of what others say about you and if one’s mind is not strong enough (like mines when
I was younger) that person can then go into a mental pessimistic mind frame. This usually affects
young adults a lot more often than children under 12 (University of Michigan Depression Center
web site).
When I was in middle school up until high school I was bullied a lot, kids would talk about my
hair, say that I’m lame, ugly, weird, so on. At that time of going into puberty I was not aware that
