Chinese teenager who calls her boyfriend 100 times a day was diagnosed with a disease called ‘love brain’
The expert said the condition often occurs in people who did not have healthy relationships with their parents during childhood (representative image)
People with mild forms of the condition may recover on their own by learning to manage their emotions, the doctor said, but sufferers with severe symptoms will need medical help.
For many people love comes and goes. But people for whom love becomes an addiction may be suffering from some medical condition. Recently, an 18-year-old girl in China, who texted her boyfriend “more than 100 times a day”, has been found to be suffering from a disease called “love brain”.
The worrying diagnosis followed a devastating saga of passion that left the girl, identified as Xiaoyu, in hospital and her boyfriend in trouble.
Xiaoyu’s worrying behavior began in her first year of university South China Morning Post This news has been given quoting Doctor Du Na of The Fourth People’s Hospital of Chengdu.
According to the report, after Jiaoyu, a resident of Sichuan province in southwestern China, became close to her boyfriend, she became very dependent on him and started needing him all the time.
She started harassing him constantly to keep him updated about his whereabouts. She also expected him to respond to her messages at all hours of the day and night.
This made her lover’s life miserable as he felt uncomfortable and suppressed.
A video clip of Xiaoyu also went viral in which she was seen repeatedly messaging her boyfriend to turn on her WeChat camera. However, despite the man ignoring the messages, she still video calls him.
According to reports, the situation went out of control when Xiaoyu called her boyfriend more than 100 times a day and he did not answer.
She became so upset by this that she started breaking household items, after which her boyfriend had to call the police to stop her.
The police arrived just in time as Xiaoyu was threatening to jump from the balcony of his house. She was taken to the hospital where she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, colloquially known as “love brain”.
Quoting Dr. Du South China Morning Post reported that “love brain” can co-exist with other mental illnesses such as anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder.
The expert said that this condition often occurs in people who did not have healthy relationships with their parents during their childhood.
People with mild forms of the condition may recover on their own by learning to manage their emotions, the doctor said, but sufferers with severe symptoms will need medical help.
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