A recent study confirms a linkage between bullying and mental illness. It has long been speculated that bullies are much more inclined to suffer from mental illnesses including depression, anxiety, attention deficit disorder and oppositional defiant disorder. Providing an actual scientific link for the reasons many young men and women act as bullies was recently studied by researchers at Brown University and the results shed new light on an unnerving subject. Bullies are thought to act out for a variety of reasons.  Whether due to inadequate parental supervision as children or lack of proper authority and upbringing, children that become “bullies” often act out their aggression and dissatisfaction with their own lives on other innocent children. Researchers at Brown University analyzed survey responses from parents of nearly 64,000 children ages 6 … Read entire article »