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Psychologist Dr. Lee-Anne Gray founded a school whose mission is “Empathic Education for a Compassionate Nation.” She teaches the art of empathic listening and it is a powerful technique to dismantle normalized bullying in our society @bulliedbrain #resist
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Identifying with the aggressor is comparable to Stockholm syndrome, in which a hostage will bond with their captor. This bonding occurs because the brain is aware that the captor could harm or kill the #hostage. The bond intensifies as a survival strategy
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@bulliedbrain's clients want to know why as employees, they suffered repeat abuses. To overcome this obstacle to recovery, we must first recognize how bullying works.

@jjfreydcourage and Pamela Birrell detail the coping mechanism of blindness @PsychToday
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If you are daily coming into contact with a boss or peer who bullies you, your brain predicts that the situation is one of fight, flight, or freeze & this causes your body to release the stress hormone cortisol more often & in greater amounts than you need
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Victims choose, consciously or unconsciously, blindness to their betrayal as an adaptive strategy to cope with an impossible crisis. Not surprisingly this divisive response often leads to “symptoms of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder"
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In some ways, bullying is like a virus; the behavior can seem to spread from person to person—especially from adult bullies to children in their care—and it may come with lasting damage to physical and mental health, especially to its child victims #resist
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Pointing out to a child that bullies do not have the power they claim is not designed to minimize or dismiss the incredible harm a #bullying child can do, but it undermines the bullying myth that tends to position the bully as powerful & the victim as weak
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Flight is the response of employees who quit their jobs when they have a Machiavellian manager who transforms a work environment based on mutual respect, care, & meritocracy into a toxic environment where favouritism rules the day @bulliedbrain @PsychToday
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Thirty years ago, researchers had an opportunity to find out if neglect was harmful to children’s #brains and bodies. They discovered that ignoring children was devastating. They learned that ignoring babies and children eroded their brains @bulliedbrain
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In his extensive research into the destructive impact of adult bullying and abuse on children, Dr Vincent Felitti describes it as a “reverse alchemy” whereby a child’s once golden health and potential are turned into lead by the adults who rule their lives
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When a victim's traumatized self identifies with the perpetrator, the brain creates the conditions for bullycide. We cannot fully keep youth safe from harm, but we can balance toxic stressors w/ extensive education on how to best manage their mental health
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