Words hurt.

Picture being bullied every day—endless torture to endure from people who don’t understand what they’re doing. Now, just imagine the damage all that bullying can do to someone’s brain and emotional stability. What exactly can happen to someone’s physiological structure due to bullying? Be prepared; these facts are shocking.

There is a strong connection between bullying and depression, according to bullyingstatistics.org. Some signs of depression as a result of bullying include irritability, changes in sleep patterns, restlessness, feelings of worthlessness, and laziness.

Students who appear to be vulnerable are the usual targets of bullying, according to MHS social workers, Diane Marascia and Joanne Waters. Once students are being bullied,their relationship with school is corrupted. They become deathly afraid to come to the one place they should feel safe.

They will get anxiety, they will have trouble sleeping, their grades will drop, and they will have anticipatory nervousness to go to school, because they are too afraid about being bullied. Nationally, 160,000 kids miss school every day due to fear of being bullied.

As a result of bullying, that once bright, happy kid could turn into someone who feels hopeless, tired, and in some cases, suicidal. On the surface, bullying hurts, but the place it really hurts is the mind.