A nine-year-old girl has fallen victim to high study pressure, and her family spent more than 600,000 yuan ($88,000) on medical treatment before her recovery, the Qilu Evening News reported Thursday.
The victim, from Zibo in Shandong province, suffered from frequent vomiting since 2008 and was diagnosed as having nerve dysfunction which was caused by high mental stress, said a doctor named Du Zhongde from a hospital in Weifang in Shandong province.
The girl's parents, well educated and rich, placed very high expectations of her. She was sent to her city's best primary school, where she was forced by her parents to take five specialty training classes including piano and dance, which, she had no interests at all, at the age of seven. Although she hated taking part in any of the specialty training classes, the girl still had to attend them under pressure from her parents.
After several failed attempts of not attending those classes, she was found to have the symptoms vomiting, insomnia and grumpiness at the second half of 2008.
The symptoms appeared once every 20 days at first. But in May 2009, her vomiting came twice or three times a day, and sometimes even more than ten times a day.
The family took her to more than ten hospitals in Beijing and Tianjin before she was finally cured in a hospital in Weifang, where she was hospitalized for 42 days before her recovery on June 1.
1 year, 8 months ago
She should get a salary because she's working harder than the adults.
Shame on the parents.