Jessica HickmanThought Leader | TEDx Speaker | 2 x Author | Leadership

What are the effects of bullying?

Name: What are the effects of bullying?
Uploaded: 2019-09-02T22:39:40+00:00
Duration: 1 min 12 s
Channel: Jessica Hickman
Description: In this explanatory video, Jessica Hickman outlines how workplace bullying leads to serious emotional and physical health problems. She notes that…

2 Sept 2019 · 1 min

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In this explanatory video, Jessica Hickman outlines how workplace bullying leads to serious emotional and physical health problems. She notes that targets experience higher rates of anxiety, depression, and post‑traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) compared with other employees, which can translate into chronic health issues and reduced productivity. In severe cases, bullying‑related health problems prevent individuals from returning to work altogether. Hickman emphasizes that bullying’s impact extends beyond the office, affecting daily activities, family life, relationships, self‑esteem, and broader social engagement. She stresses that the psychological trauma can persist for years, decades, or a lifetime, and cites a growing body of research supporting these claims.

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The emotional and physical effects of bullying. Targets of workplace bullying experience higher rates of anxiety, depression, and PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, than other employees, leading to increased health issues that can affect productivity. In some cases, health problems resulting from the extreme bullying have prevented people from returning to the workforce entirely. Bullying influences a worker's life inside and outside of the office, affecting their daily activities, family life, relationships, self-esteem, and wider social engagement. The pain doesn't end when they walk out of the office door. The experience of being bullied can have lasting mental health effects. That can damage every aspect of a victim's life. This is supported by a growing body of research and is self-evident to anyone who has experienced bullying. In some cases, the trauma can stay with the victims for years to come, or even decades, or entirely for the rest of their life.