Woman, 27, develops severe anxiety causing body numbness, breathing difficulties due to parents’ constant demands to get married
- A young woman in eastern China recently went to a local hospital experiencing difficulty breathing and numbness
- Doctors diagnosed her with anxiety disorder and respiratory alkalosis which often happens when people breathe in too much air such as during a panic attack
A 27-year-old woman in China has been diagnosed with severe anxiety as a result of relentless pressure from her parents to find a man and get married.
The story has been picked up by Chinese news outlets and gone viral on mainland social media, receiving 260 million views on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like platform.
The woman, from Jinan in Shandong province in eastern China, recently went to a local hospital after experiencing a panic attack with difficulty breathing, numbness, and twitching limbs, reported news outlet Shanhai Video.
She was diagnosed with anxiety and told that her difficulty breathing was resulted from respiratory alkalosis caused by low blood carbon dioxide levels due to rapid breathing such as hyperventilating.
The woman’s doctor Chen Liang said her symptoms began after a heated argument with her parents about her getting married.
