Bullies are suffering a great deal?
Whilst it may well be true that bullies are often suffering from emotional and/or mental problems themselves, knowing this does not really help the target of their bullying very much at all! I know this from first hand experience because I was the target of a bullying boss, who made my life an absolute misery for several years!
And as for Domingus's advice that you should find a new job, I tried in vain to find a new job for abourt 3 years! And because I couldn't find one, I couldn't leave my current job because the Social would have said that I had made myself unemployed and would therefore not have paid me any money to live on!
My bullying took place in 1997, when I was 49, and I woke up one day and just could not face going in to work. I had spoken to my bullying boss and to the Personnel Manager but as no other memeber of staff had complained about him, they obviously thought I must be over-stating my case. But I was not: I was so depressed by the time I left that I couldn't even face doing my grocery shopping during the day, when the store would be crowded. Nor could I face seeing my best friend. I just locked myself indoors and only went out in the early hours of the morning, to do my grocery shopping.This went on for several months until I finally had the strength to seek help.
I have never worked since because this experience left me petrified that it might happen again. So I spent 16 years on State Benefits and couldn't afford a single holiday, anything new for the house or even to go out for a drink with my friends. I have now retired and I can finally relax and get on with the rest of my life without having to worry about ever being the victim of a bullying boss ever again.
