General Article Suffering PTSD from school bullying: My search for validation

Topic Selected: Anti-Bullying Book Volume: 450

It took me a long time to get rid of the shame that plagued me after my experience at school, and the reason for that lies in a portion of society’s refusal to recognise being bullied as a serious and traumatic experience.

[This article contains themes of abuse and accounts of personal trauma]

By Hannah Broughton 

Conversations around trauma and mental health in all their complicated forms have become less taboo in the last couple of decades, and you’d have to be a hermit not to notice.

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