The term “harassment” is present in different areas of daily life. Blocking, while one of the lesser-known modalities, also deserves our attention.
Children experience bullying or bullying at school or college. At home, harassment can occur among family members, and in the professional world, there are many cases of moral harassment among peers.
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- Hostility between people and aggression are very present in our day-to-day life.
- A similar phenomenon occurs in neighbors: blockade.
- Is a harassment behavior between one or more neighbors aimed at another person living in the same building or street.
This hostility is not limited to the problems of coexistence, and ends up becoming a real recurring harassment.
The victim therefore suffers from the typical psychological consequences that are often seen in most victims of abuse. Symptoms that occur may include low self-esteem, constant fear and anxiety, despair, depressive symptoms, and even suicidal thoughts.
The phenomenon has several different phases. It’s not ideal to wait for them to happen, but to file a formal complaint as soon as you start noticing that harassment begins.
It is very important to carry out a psychological intervention, whether it is the victim or the stalker himself, from this point of view it is essential to carry out good training in communication and self-affirmation.
Ideally, it is possible to intervene when harassment occurs, in the first phase of the conflict, at this stage the victim and the stalker must learn to maintain good communication, based on respect and empathy.
If, for example, a neighbor has a dog barking all day and another neighbor complains, it would be important if they could both come to a compromise where there is an agreement.
The neighbor who has the dog in the first place can apologize, try to prevent the problem from happening again or learn to educate his dog so that he cannot (for example, training, not leaving the dog alone, giving away a toy to entertain, etc. ).
On the other hand, the complaining neighbor, who can become a stalker if the conflict is not resolved, should try to be more flexible and understand that there are neighbors who have pets, who cannot leave them so as not to disturb others.
If this is not exaggerated, you must learn to tolerate noise
If neighbors manage to agree, one increases flexibility and tolerance, and the other tries to find a solution, bullying will most likely not progress.
However, if one of them gets defensive, the situation will continue and could end much worse than it started.
When bullying is already ongoing, it is imperative that the victim contact a psychologist who can help her increase her self-confidence and self-esteem. You may recommend not arguing and, above all, not reacting to insults and humiliations.
Of course, this is a plausible recommendation only if these insults are verbal only. Obviously, if a physical abuse case occurs, a formal complaint must be filed.
If none of this works and harassment persists for a long time, you can consider relocating, however, it is a last resort, because it is a drastic solution.
In the new house it is important that the victim, so as not to fall into the same situation, introduce himself to all the neighbors, comment that he has a dog, plays the piano in the afternoon, has a baby crying at night, etc. , so that the new neighbors know what to expect and it is possible to avoid blocking.