Bullying resulted in me having to change jobs. I feel helpless that the perpetrators are thriving

‘Anger that goes unexpressed can curdle inside the wrong person so the victim of an unfairness ends up getting hurt twice.’ Painting: Magic Scene with Self-Portrait (c1600s) by Pieter van Laer. Photograph: Tomas Abad/Alamy

I have been bullied, laughed at and been at the receiving end of various (probably unconscious) biases that resulted in me having to change jobs multiple times. I consider myself fortunate that every job change has proven to be the right step upwards in my career, but I can’t reconcile myself with the facts that those perpetrators are carrying on and thriving as if nothing has happened.

I regularly wake up at 3am with a pounding chest as all that trauma comes back to me, and feel sheer anger and helplessness against what seems to be a real injustice.