The childhood saying "sticks and stones may break your bones,
but words will never hurt me," may have been wrong after all
according to a new study that finds adults bullied as children
carry the scars of their experience within them for decades.
Results of a large study of bullied children show that victims
of bullying are more likely to develop anxiety disorders,
depression, or think about suicide as adults compared with those
who weren't bullied, medscape writes. "Bullying, which we tend
to think of as a normal and not terribly important part of
childhood, turns out to have the potential for very serious
consequences for children, adolescents, and adults," senior
study author E. Jane Costello, PhD, said in a statement to
medscape. "We were surprised at how profoundly bullying affects
a person's long-term functioning," said William E. Copeland,
lead author of the study and an associate professor of
psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical
Center. “The pattern we are seeing is similar to