Chronic invalidation/Teasing/bullying & pathologic problems?

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Has anyone drawn a link between these? ....Before last night - in which I had really, a lot of fun...I used to be very unhappy. I used to live overseas in Turkey in a tight community (and the culture there is warm, anyway - people accepting). But I remember when coming back to stateside, during HS, is when all my "problems started". And even bfor that in middle school when i was in states.

Just the social exclusion, critical attitudes from others and invalidations from not "feeling like I fit in enough" has stuck with me for life...I think. I used to say I "couldn't be happy here" in the states. But I don't think that's true. I think it was an internal situation ...I was carrying with me, and projecting outward onto situations and externals.

I just realized I am doing this last night; somehow. And stopped. I realized happiness was rigght in front of me, and actually had a fun/good/relaxing connecting time with people.


Am I onto something?

Bullying is damaging to people in myriad of ways including that one

yes.

I had this problem. I moved 1,000 miles away, and cited similar reasons. I had a history of the things you spoke of in school as well and they affected me my whole life. I always have an inferiority complex to this day and I always feel like people around me are judging me.

I learned most of it is internal. There are legitimately people who dislike me for various reasons, but most of it, I learned, I put on myself. It's as if I liked to convince myself everyone hates me and thinks I'm weird, and that simply isn't true.

There's some reasonable research on the links. I will try and locate it for you.