Bullying (young people) support in Türkiye 🇹🇷

“Reading this late at night? I've been there. I was right where you are about three years ago. I remember when the school did nothing, like it was yesterday. Some weeks I don't think about it at all. Keep going, even slowly.”

“Hello from the other side of it. I've been there. For me it was in 2023. Dreading Mondays, every single day. I laugh properly again. It doesn't stay this heavy.”

“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.”

“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.”