Have you ever experienced bullying within the workplace? If you have, then you’re not alone. Recent studies show that 47% of UK workers have observed bullying at work and 1 in 10 people have experienced being bullied.
It’s something that can deeply impact your mental health, isn’t always obvious to spot and affects thousands of people every day. Unlike bullying at school which may be more overt, bullying within the workplace can be subtle with passive aggressive communication and gas lighting.
I experienced this myself 7 years ago and it’s not something I’ve ever spoken about. It had a huge impact on my mental health and the burnout it created took years to recover from.
You can listen to one of the things I experienced in the workplace with a female boss here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CxItGLUoV-F/
Comments like this are deeply damaging to an employees mental health for a number of reasons:
1) it’s a personal attack on the employees personality and has nothing to do with their role .
2) They are using an umbrella term ‘everyone thinks’ rather than owning their personal opinion.
3) These types of comments are a form of emotional abuse, used to put a person down.
4) Language like this is used as a form of control in order to make a person feel small.
5) Statements like this don’t allow the person to really respond (what can you say to something like that) and is another way to assert control.
6) Derogatory comments in any form can negatively impact a persons self esteem.
It’s important to remember that while you control other people, you can always control how you react.
It may not feel like it at the time but you have a choice as to how much of someone’s toxic energy you take on.
Tapping is the perfect way to calm your nervous system and give that toxic energy back so watch the video above to help you nurture your mental health and process beeing bullied.
If you are going through it now, know that you are not alone. For more support please get in touch kim@happyheads.me I would love to hear from you.
Kim xx