Yes it did mess me up for life... i was bullied unmercifully from grade school up until my freshman year of high school... in grade school i was taunted, provoked, hit in the head with rocks on one occasion for no reason... it got so bad i had anxiety attacks every morning before school to the point i would throw up...
Junior High was the same minus the rocks, i had to deal with the same crap... 8th graders threatening to follow me home and knife me.. little wanna be gang members who made my life miserable.. my grades started slipping in 8th grade.. and then came High School...
Now it was the grades above me attacking me verbally, making fun of me until i would hide in the bathrooms or library during lunch hour.. on top of it i had teachers purposefully bullying me too... a business class teacher, constantly degraded me in front of the other students, pointed me out calling me a failure, and made racial slurs.. my math teacher caused me trauma not even realizing he was doing so.. maybe he knew and enjoyed it who knows.. i was the WORST math student in the class, failing due to a learning disability and every day we'd have these little games we'd play in class, pitting two students against one another in a timed race to see who finished first.. the loser was the one everyone laughed at while they struggled to finish the problems.. EVERYTIME i was pitted against the only calculus whiz in the class.. every damn time, she'd finish the problems in under a minute and id stand there 10 mins trying in vain and openly crying while everyone laughed at me and jeered.. to add insult to injury the teacher would then call the calculus student back up and ask them to HELP me step by step...
suffice it to say i lasted 4 months of my freshman year before i dropped out because of how traumatic school was for me... to date ive never been able to get past the anxiety and trauma that this caused.. ive got no GED because everytime i sit down to try to take even the practice math test i get physically ill and have a panic attack.. the learning disability on top of the anxiety being triggered any time im TESTED or have to sit down and do anything class related..
To sum it up... no GED in this time and place means NO job, i've never been able to get it finished, and i have issues that need therapy but unfortunately without money and without a job there is NO help for me... bullying DOES mess up others lives... most definitely..