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What You’re Experiencing Is Trauma
Even the largest, strongest, and fleetest person may be driven to despair by bullying, taunting, and constant insults.
This chapter describes the physical, emotional, and psychological toll that workplace bullying takes on targets. It may be triggering, and therefore it may be important for you to surround yourself with support. There is still such a societal stigma toward those suffering the very real psychological and physical effects of workplace bullying. It’s this stigma that keeps targets covered in a shame storm of secrecy, lest we appear mentally unstable.
So let me be clear. This chapter is about me and the depths to which I fell as the result of having been the target of workplace bullying ...
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