A woman in Hebei, China, pretended to be sick and was paralyzed in bed for 20 years. (Picture / Retrieved from Weibo)
Drop the glasses! Wu Guiying, a scrawny, yellow-faced woman in Hebei, China, has been paralyzed and bedridden since she was 16 years old. She has been cared for by her family for 20 years. , and finally the truth came out.
According to comprehensive Lu media reports, Wu Guiying has 7 brothers and sisters. She is the youngest child in the family. The family loves her very much and has never done housework. In 1988, Wu Guiying and her brother had a heated argument over a trivial matter. Her brother slapped her twice in anger, causing her to fall unconscious on the spot. When she woke up, she said, “I just felt a little numb in my legs. Alright”, who knows that he will be paralyzed from now on, and he will never be able to get up once more.
In the future, Wu Guiying lived, ate, drank, and slept under the care of her mother until she died of overwork in December 2007. Before her death, she entrusted the responsibility of taking care of her to her third daughter, Wu Guiling. The strange thing is that one day Wu Guiling came home and saw a dark shadow flashing across the house. At first, he thought there was a thief, but following careful inspection, he found no one. He suspected that he was wrong, but he unexpectedly saw Wu Guiying in the yard. Take a walk and see her suddenly collapsed unconscious on the ground, waking up with no recollection of what happened.
After discussing with her husband, Wu Guiling decided to install a monitor at home, but Wu Guiying got up from the bed and walked to the kitchen in a normal manner to look for food, which made her very angry and asked her sister what was going on. Wu Guiying still refused to admit it, claiming that she knew nothing. In order to find out, the family decided to send Wu Guiying to the hospital for examination. The results showed that there was no other problem except the muscle atrophy due to long-term continuous training.
The doctor revealed that Wu Guiying has a mental illness, and found that deliberately pretending to be sick can get the love and care of her family, and gradually began to rely on it, and finally believed that she was really paralyzed. Fortunately, following treatment, Wu Guiying accepted the reality and began to return to normal life. Some reporters saw her in very good condition in early 2022 and cherished her current life, and mightn’t help feeling relieved.
