Silent Witnessing: Stopping the Bully

CJ Sterling
5 min readSep 9, 2019
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EDIT: I want to say first, this, before I tell the story of how my mother stopped bullying by doctors in an entire state mental hospital: I am hoping that people who feel helpless to stop a bully will stand next to a victim in silent support when they see it going on. Even one person standing, as a silent witness, next to the victim, can stop a bully. I know. I have done it.

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CJ Sterling

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