[Lauren]

I have been bullied most of my life and only just recently has the bullying stopped (Mainly when I got into sixth form - people because less judgmental of other people, and everyone just gets on). Saying that, a lot of people are bullied this day in age and I just hope people can see that when they're bullied, it's nothing against them - cos ANYONE can be bullied.

It's probably hurt me in the long term with self-conscious issues. I now constantly worry about how people perceive me, and I worry about if people genuinely like me or are just faking it. I'm also very shy around people, whereas I know that I'm not really a shy person. Though I'm getting over most of these issues, it's well and truly behind me now.

I didn't tell anyone about it because it wasn't physical and a lot of people were getting treat worse than me. There was probably more people bullied in my school than there wasn't because the bullies just went with anyone.
I've intervened to stop bullying a couple of times cos I just got sick of people feeling they have the right to judge other peoples when they themselves are not perfect in any way.

I was never a bully myself and I will never be a bully. I'm totally against everything bullying stands for.
I think schools do not have the chance to deal with bullying as effectively as they like because they're constantly being held up by both sides - the victim and the offenders and they can't do anything right.