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Published Date: 13 November 2008
HOLLYOAKS actor Garnon Davies today spoke of his experiences of being bullied.
Davies, who plays Elliot in the soap, was joined by Beijing Paralympian gold medallist David Roberts, pictured, at an event to launch Anti-Bullying Week.

A survey of 150,000 children found more than a third had been bullied.





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  • Last Updated: 13 November 2008 10:40 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Bullying at school
 
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Finlang,

Switzerland 14/11/2008 23:21:50
Bullies do what they do because they are nature's original cowards. They are inferior. To compensate for a low sense of self-worth they attempt to inflate their imagined superiority by attacking somebody, who won't or can't hit back, on the slightest pretext.

Like vultures, they prey on those they perceive as weaker (usually physically) than themselves, because it reinforces their deluded perception of self. Psychological bullying is no less harmful than the physical kind. It's arguably worse. Again the reasons for doing so are similar. A deluded self-perception of superiority when in fact the bully is as inferior as it is possible for a human being to be.

They surface in number on newspaper Comments forums like dregs from the bottom of a muddy pond. A simple trawl of The Scotsman pages displays an array of rather nasty beings whose personal goading shows all the traits recognisable in the standard psychological bully repertoire. The hurling of meaningless vindictive insults at other posters, is the classic ploy. Net bullies hide in these instances, safe - so they imagine - in cowardly anonymity.

I was bullied both physically and psychologically in primary school by one bigger boy in my class for a number of years. Until one fine day. On reaching the age of eleven I discovered a new strength, an inner energy, which has never left me since. The bully approached me in the playground in his usual taunting way, and instead of cowering I let fly at him, drawing blood. The shock on his face was something to behold. I would likely have battered him senseless had not a crowd of classmates pulled me away. The bullying stopped there and then, never to return.







 

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