Chester Joins Anti-Bullying Campaign

You want to know WHY they're doing anti-bullying campaigns dude? Take a look at my autobiography I wrote of myself:

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This wasn't something I planned to show everyone but, I went through one heck of a rough childhood so I know how Chester felt to an extent. Bullying is WRONG and no extent of bullying is okay.

I learned to stick up for myself YEARS after I quit public school. Not because some jerk beat the crap out of me. [/b][/quote]
You read my mind!
I'm always so bad with words so I didn't post it.

....frikin hell

I have a different expirience. I'm not bullyed in school but my mom beats the * out of me so it's kinda similar.

 

I used to get bullied when attending public school, but I guess I'm a bit different because I never took shit from anyone, even when I was a really young kid in kindergarten. Bullying doesn't make a kid stronger a lot of the times, it has a lot of side effects. In high school I stopped sticking up for myself because I was excessively bullied and all it turned out to give me was a trust issue with people which I am working to get rid of. Bullying didn't make me stronger, encouragement from people to do my best did. I may not be the strongest person alive or in my age group, but I would say I'm strong, just I didn't learn it from all the fights I've been in and all the shit I've taken.

edit: On the article, I'm glad that Chester spoke his mind. It's really good to see someone we listen to and are fans of to hear it out in the public about this type of stuff. Gives some people more closure that there are others out there who have gone through similar stuff and found coping and such.

 

Derek knows my little story about what happen to myself and what a football player did to me.

Anyways, I think the bullies get to much shit. Usually, at their home, they're abused, and can't respond to the abuse, so they lash out at people close to them, and take out their anger on someone they think they can belittle and whatnot.

Other times though, it's just a case of someone thinking they can push someone else around, or they own the school/town.

In my case, it really was the kid thinking he owned the town, since his dad had more say in town affairs than the Mayor.

 

What is Spiked supposed to do? Fight back? Go to the police?

I'd probably go the police. If you fight back, you run a high risk of being badly injured.

Does she just beat you for no reason, or is she drunk when she does it?

If she's drunk, you need to get your family to convince her to get help.

If not, then get her some help yourself, and dial 911 next time it happens.

 

Spiked, I know this isn't my buissness, but you gotta go to the police. You can't let your mom do that to you.

 

HAHAHAHA

Reality is in Dubai they DON"T CARE!

You don't think I tried, they don't give a damn unless I'm in the hospital, they only want to take action when the worst is done.

My mom doesn't drink and my dad is never home, out of the country.
I've never met my family, I've only seen them once in my grandmothers funeral.

She doesn't hit that much they're only bruises a I very RARELY bleed...lots of people have been treated like that in the past I'm sure. "You try to take the best of me GO AWAY"

I know lots of people with the same problem, my best friend acctually.


It's okay I'm fine, it's not that serious, really

 

How can you say that when hundreds of kids/teens commit suicide every year because of some jackass thats bullying them?

I agree that its done wonders for chester but bullying is just bad full stop

My school is probably the most famous in Europe for its anti-bullying campaigns,Its called the ABC (anti-bullying council) and its got a very good rep for helping people with their problems

 

How can you say that when hundreds of kids/teens commit suicide every year because of some jackass thats bullying them?

I agree that its done wonders for chester but bullying is just bad full stop

My school is probably the most famous in Europe for its anti-bullying campaigns,Its called the ABC (anti-bullying council) and its got a very good rep for helping people with their problems [/b][/quote]
I think your school is amazing.
It's really great that they're doing helping...do they really help or are the ABC just failing miserably but trying?

Our school is against bullying too so they suspend people that are play fighting...yet when someone IS being bullyed after school they say they aren't being bullyed in school so it's not their problem. Therefore I declare my school SUCKS.

BTW yes, bullying may have done wonders for Chester but as a result of bullying and other things he turned to drugs and so now he is constantly sick:

"He continues to struggle with acid reflux disease, an aliment that forced him to cancel shows two years ago, due to an infected pharynx in his throat. He jokes that even water makes his stomach upset. Then there was this years infection that sent him to intensive care at LA's Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre. The onset of the attack was frigtening. He suddenly found himself losing feeling in his fingers, followed by his arms, feet and legs. His wife found him passed out in his home, collapsed on the floor, which he still doesn't recall happening to him. At hospital, he was administered morphine("the black shroud of death" as he describes it), and the pain medication Dilaudid. Through it all, surronded by his family and friends, Bennington says that he was angry with himself for his body failure to stay healthy."
Source: Kerrang!: Week of July 27th

 

I think its cool that Chester is doing this and standing behind a campaign against bullying in the UK. I think that campaign was started as a result of the helping hand scheme by the sun newspaper. This scheme was started after a lad who was at my school commited suicide because of bullying, then not long afterwards a girl in his year did the same thing. It means a lot to everyone who has ever been bullied to ahve someone as ultimately cool as Chester doing something like this!

 

way to go chester!

 

You want to know WHY they're doing anti-bullying campaigns dude? Take a look at my autobiography I wrote of myself:

Warning explicit language in the following link. View with caution.

Click

This wasn't something I planned to show everyone but, I went through one heck of a rough childhood so I know how Chester felt to an extent. Bullying is WRONG and no extent of bullying is okay.

I learned to stick up for myself YEARS after I quit public school. Not because some jerk beat the crap out of me. [/b][/quote]
Yah i can understand your case. But for one i know that growing up i got teased and picked on alot. I was thrown into the lockers and all the bullshit. I mean to me that is what made me a stronger person and allowed me to learn to stand up for myself. Like i said though not to the extent that you have written in your thing, but i mean bullying is bullying. Thats i said bullying to a certain extent, but i mean now adays kids are so violent that when they get teased they start bringing a gun to school or other waepons to really do damage. So I mean yah shouldn't be inflicted on anyone, but the reality is that there is going to be bullying, we don't live in a Utopia.

 

You want to know WHY they're doing anti-bullying campaigns dude? Take a look at my autobiography I wrote of myself:

Warning explicit language in the following link. View with caution.

Click

This wasn't something I planned to show everyone but, I went through one heck of a rough childhood so I know how Chester felt to an extent. Bullying is WRONG and no extent of bullying is okay.

I learned to stick up for myself YEARS after I quit public school. Not because some jerk beat the crap out of me. [/b][/quote]
Reminds me of a couple things... Made the semi-emotionless person I am, I guess .

You know, those times are behind us, and now we must say to ourselves maybe it made us better...

 

Or perhaps it left the victims of bullying emotionally (and perhaps even physically) scared for life.

 

Did you enjoy getting thrown into the lockers and did it make you have a positive outlook on life and people around you? I doubt it. Stronger person or not, I don't think that while you were getting teased like this, it made you think positive and that people really gave a shit abiout you.

Imagine how I felt when those 5 kids were kicking the shit out of me in the bus, I could've have felt any weaker then at that point. I dont see how feeling my weakest can make me a stronger guy.

You have valid points but they dont work for everyone, I'm sorry. [/b][/quote]
Well yah i totally understand your point of view. I think one reaosn i was able to take it was because i had a group of friends that i could still hang out with. Plus when i went home i had a good family that i could be with. Just that the times when i was always bugged and teased and pushed around, I guess they just happen to find me by myself. But none the less i can totally understand where your coming from.

 

wow thats awesome. now i respect chester bennington not even as a great musician - i respect him farther as a person. his past couldnt be worse than it is actually - bullying, drugs, sexual abusing, divorce - he's someone who should commited suicide already, but the music kept him on the surface. now he helps the kids which are probably in the same situation. thumbs up chester! you're awesome.

 

I definately have more respect for Chester now but this doesn't really affect me too much since I have not been bullied. All I can do is imagine what it is like to be bullied like some of you have.
:hugz:

 

Hats off to Derek for finding the courage to deal with these issues and be open about it. It's hard to let it out and I have respect for Derek because he's doing that.

If you can't stick up for yourself, then people will hurt you. I think most people don't understand that because they can be themselves and do what they want around people. There's no way you can imagine feeling a certain phobia, anxiety, and hurt from something, unless you've felt it. So I don't think anyone can be like "Suck it up, pussy." because they are judging something they know shit about.