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In response to ray, Your reflection captures a crucial reality about the experience of being bullied, and even more so, the psychological warfare that happens in the mind of both the victim and the aggressor. The statement that bullying functions as a “brainwashing exercise” is strikingly accurate. Both parties are, in different ways, indoctrinated into believing simplified versions of reality—ones that strip people of their wholeness and reduce them to specific flaws. For the bullied, it’s a forced identity that centers on their perceived deficiencies. For the bully, it’s an ongoing justification for why they inflict pain, based on their own sense of inadequacy. The power of exaggeration in this context is particularly insidious. When someone points out a person’s flaws, like being chubb

This location doesn't exist 😔 Those who undergo bullying, as we all do to a certain degree –especially those who bully–, are repeatedly submitted to a sort of brainwashing exercise: the deepest truth of themselves is ignored and trampled upon by the constant tyranny of lies and heartless exaggerations. I mention these exaggerations because it is important to recognize that many times there is truth in what is said. Such and such person is perhaps chubby, ugly (exteriorly according to present day paradigms), less intelligent, etc. Nevertheless this truth is ripped from the context of the whole the person and presented as his or her defining factor. What should be a harmless truth becomes a very painful one that induces the victim to believe that the source of their suffering is how they are