Before Twitter, more specifically multiple experiences of being a cyber-bullying victim, I wasn't able to quite get the mental process of victimes of bullying. During the school years, I was mostly an observer rather than a victim. I knew bullying would be a painful experience, but I couldn't possibly imagine the feeling of being in the middle of it.

How can I describe it... it feels like being pressured by very thick air. Maybe just like when you're diving into the deap ocean. The pressure goes up, you feel trapped, and your brain loses its normal sense of sound judgment. Even if you have good reasoning and inference skills, those skills don't work properly because the fear and anxiety take over the whole cognitive process. Human beings are designed to be social animals and bullying experiences are perfect examples to prove that social instinct comes before other functions of human brain.

(Just wanted to leave a record of my personal theory before looking up academic papers, because I believe it's important to develop my own language before attempting to borrow academic language to describe my personal experience.)