Starting life in a new town became too much for one Chinese teen whose extreme loneliness led to a suicide attempt.
The 14 year old girl, identified as Xiao Mei, sat dangerously on the window ledge outside her family's seventh floor apartment in Chongqing, western China.
She had reached breaking point after her parents refused to let her go back to her childhood home of Yunnan, south west China
Local police received a report of the suicide attempt at 7:50am on July 6 and arrived to see a crowd of 200 people watching the teenager.
Xiao Mei was sitting more than 65 feet above the ground and was silent apart from the occasional mutterings of 'leave me alone'.
Her family members had been unable to convince the troubled teen to leave the window ledge.
After an hour of persuasion, Xiao finally revealed her frustrations to the police.
She said that she was an introvert and that she rarely talked to her parents. She also believed her low-grades at school were contributing to her lack of self-esteem.
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