If you think bullying is over rated or everyone is over reacting to it then you've clearly never been for bullied for a long period before. I was bullied for 6 years straight every day I was at school, drove me insane. The best way to think of it is with someone with a knife every hour or so swinging it past your face and laughing, you flinch every time because you never know when it might actually hit you.
Anyway I got over it just because I knew all the dumbasses were bunch of pussies by themselves, I enjoyed smashing and making them run off and crying like 5 year olds.