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Fighting

Anorexia

Through

Art

Teens overcome anorexia by having

extracurricular art classes outside
of school.

By Cathleena Zhu

hang Ranze suffered from alized the seriousness of the prob- painting studio.
anorexia when he was in lem and took him to seek help
Zprimary school because of from a psychologist. “Many of my friends have told
strict parenting and countless tests me about a teacher at the studio.
at school. He finds his passion in The doctor advised his parents She does not limit children’s im-
Maths after his parents sent him to not to keep forcing the boy to study
have art classes. and kept telling him what to do.
He advised them to let the child do
“My parents sent me to after- what he really liked.
school classes starting from grade
one every day and even during “I told my mother that I like to
weekends. I did my study nearly draw random lines on a book to
10 hours a day,” the 17-year-old re- relieve my stress after the doctor’s
calls. consultation. It worked,” the high
school student recalls.
Being one of the top three stu-
dents in his class in grade one, he After learning about her son’s
became one of the bottom five in interest in drawing, Han Jing, Wang Ting founded an art studio in 2008 to
grade three. His mother finally re- Zhang’s mother sent him to a help students with mental issues. (Photo
courtesy of Wang Ting)