Sorry, but no. Bullying in school is very much like being harassed as an adult (only worse, because adults can handle things mentally that young people can't).
Suppose that someone starting calling your work, repeatedly, and spread rumors about you. Maybe they told your supervisor that you were some sort of pervert. And maybe they made calls to your house, laughed, then hung up. And maybe called the electric company and cancelled your service. And threw garbage on your lawn, again and again. And a million other things to make your life miserable.
And maybe this went on for months and months and months. You, my FRiend, are being bullied as an adult. Should you just get over it, once it stops? Or would it - sadly - become a part of you?
Sorry for being so harsh here. But as I said on an earlier post, I was once an urban school teacher. I've seen a lot of bullying that left permanent mental scars.
I was ridiculed throughout my years at school because we didn't have much money and a very large family, and we lived in a very preppy area. And it was relentless. That has nothing to do with who I am or how I feel about myself. Other people do not determine for me who I am.
Likewise, when I started working it was at a factory where I was one of few singles who worked there. I was accused of having affairs with every married man in the place, even had my car sabotaged at one point by one of the friends of a wife in a gossip incident. All because supervisors need to ask people how things are going or ask what the trouble is. In other words it requires talking to them, married or not.
So don't tell me I don't know what I am talking about or if I did I might feel differently. I have faced all kinds of adversity. Those things may have gone into who and what I am as far as strength, but they do NOT determine my attitude, my present, or my future and never will.