Bullying (young people) support in France 🇫🇷

“I thought the worst part was the chat itself. It was the Mondays, that heavy feeling on a Sunday night. If that is where you are, please tell one person, a brother, a mum, a friend, even the GP. It sounds soft but it is the only thing that got things moving for me. It did not fix it in a week. It just stopped me carrying it by myself.”

“I'm only 17 and I don't have it all figured out, but if you're just starting with bullying stuff, here's what I know. It's not your fault. Even if you think you did something to cause it. You didn't. Telling someone helps, even if it's just one person. My mom was annoying about it but she was right that I needed to tell her. I'm not going to say it gets easy because it didn't for me yet. But the group chat about me stopped and I played football again last week. That's something. The mornings are still hard but I get up eventually. Find one thing that's yours, like my cat Pickles, and hold onto it.”

“Hi, you. This time last year I was exactly where you are. Nobody sits with me at lunch. That was my life. These days I mostly feel like me. You get yourself back in pieces. One day at a time.”

“To whoever needs this: Eighteen months ago I was exactly where you are. I remember when my mum says ignore them, like it was yesterday. My kids say I'm back. Things come back, slower than you'd like but they do. You're not on your own.”