Bullying has long-term consequences:
The first column represents the rate of anxiety disorders in the adults who were neither bullies nor victims in childhood. The second and third are those who were just bullies or just victims, and the last is the rate of disorder among adults who were both bullies and victims of bullying. Although anxiety is a universal experience, an anxiety disorder is a severe and potentially disabling condition. The rate of such disorders is almost four time as high among victims as among those with no experience of bullying, and nearly five times as high among those who were both bullies and victims.
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