How to recognize if you are being bully. What is bullying? Constant nit-picking, fault-finding and criticism of a trivial nature - the triviality, regularity and frequency betray bullying; often there is a grain of truth (but only a grain) in the criticism to fool you into believing the criticism has validity, which it does not; often, the criticism is based on distortion, misrepresentation or fabrication simultaneous with the criticism. A constant refusal to acknowledge you and your contributions and achievements or to recognise your existence and value constant attempts to undermine you and your position, status, worth, value and potential where you are in a group (eg at school, being singled out and treated differently; for instance, everyone else can get away with murder but the moment you put a foot wrong - however trivial - action is taken against you.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:20:56 +0000