For having depression and anxiety. After being hospitalized due to a complete breakdown, some people within my group of friends took advantage of the situation and began began having "heart to heart" talks with me.

Most of these ultimately turned into them saying things along the lines of "We (the circle of people I hung out with) all have said things about how self centered and impossible you are to be around, but we just accept that's who you are and try not to let it get to us".

Throughout the year or so it took me to overcome my own personal challenges, they systematically sabotaged every aspect of my life that brought me any kind of joy. They would submit anonymous complaints to campus police saying that because I had been hospitalized for severe depression, I was a likely culprit behind a string of cyber-bullying cases going on at the time.

This became such a problem that I was demanded to report immediately to the dean of my college's office. I will never forget him telling me how the entire executive faculty and campus police department was throwing my name around with regards to these anonymous bullies on twitter they were dealing with.

My one glimmer of hope though was when he showed me an email he wrote to the faculty group discussing the matter, defending me and saying that they should be pursuing the ones who gave this false information to them in the first place. My grades had gone from A's and B's to D's and Failing in every course. My peers didn't want to be around me, and classmates requested on two occasions that they be put into different groups for a project because they felt uncomfortable being around me.

Finally, I had enough and decided the only way to get things back on track was to rid myself of the toxic environment and people around me. Within a week, I moved out back home (about 2 hours north of where I was attending university) and registered for classes, counseling to continue what progress I was able to make, and moved into a house on the new college's campus with 3 of my lifelong and closest friends. It's been 3 years since then, and I can happily say that I'm happier than I ever have been with my life.

I was fortunate enough to pull through and overcome all of this.

However, I can't emphasize enough just how damaging this type of bullying can be. All bullying is bad, but I know that many people are unaware that this sort goes on. We are all familiar with the classic, recognizable forms; big kid picks on little kid, girls starting rumors, knocking and shoving around someone and their stuff in the hall, mean names, etc.

It makes me physically sick to think that there are people out there though who would take things to an unprecedented level of depravity by preying on those who are mentally and emotionally fragile.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.