Cyber bullying (Saja Abbas

Cyberbullying

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Background

Mental health is so important to achieve and sustaining well-being, and simultaneously reducing youth depression, anxiety, and suicidal intent continues to be a core underpinning of many public health programs. An organized determination of well-being in adolescents is the extent to which an individual feels socially connected with others. Young people increasingly connect with others online especially now the pandemic due to COVID- 19, many people had to stay home, and the impact of this on young people’s relationships and well-being is very important to consider. Cyber abuse bullying can cause serious long-term problems for both the bully and the bullied which can cause mental health. The bullied person can have problems in school, issues with depression, slipping grades, and could even resort to drug use to deal with problems caused by the bullying they experience. In terms of mental health, it can cause significant emotional, psychological, and physical distress which may experience physical symptoms, mental health issues, and struggle academically.

Solutions

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Who or what is affected

Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place over digital devices like cell phones, computers, and tablets. Cyberbullying includes sending, posting, or sharing negative, harmful, false, or mean content about someone else. Being targeted by a cyberbully may increase your child's risk of anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, or even feelings of worthlessness.Some common long-term effects of cyberbullying include depression, low self-esteem, unhealthy addictions, trust issues, and poor mental health. Cyberbullying can cause psychological effects such as fear, destruction of self-esteem, social isolation, poor academic performance. It can also lead to difficulty in forming healthy relationships and most importantly, victims can develop severe symptoms of post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression which will lead to mental health.

Current

Stopping cyberbullying is to act and don’t respond to the bully but that doesn’t mean you end the bully however you made the first step to change. Also, they should report it to the authorities because most kids don’t tell their parents about the bullying online or offline, so this is something that parents should pay close attention to their children’s physical and mental health and ask why they don’t want to go to school or have multiple accounts on social media.

My opinion on this will lead to an issue in the future if we did not take action because this has the cause and effect of the relationship between two things when one thing makes something else happen. For example, if we eat too much food and do not exercise, we gain weight. Eating food without exercising is the “cause;” weight gain is the “effect.” There may be multiple causes and multiple effects. As youth are spending increasing time in the 24/7 online environment, there is a need to develop initiatives that engage young people and encourage help-seeking online, whilst concomitantly building the capacity of parents and peers to support their well-being.

Because cyberbullying hurts inside and out it’s important to consider in terms of mental health.

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