For many people, love comes and goes. But those people, for whom love becomes addictive, could be suffering from a medical condition. Recently, an 18-year-old girl in China, who called her boyfriend “more than 100 times a day”, has been diagnosed as suffering from a condition called “love brain”.
The alarming diagnosis followed a calamitous saga of obsession that landed the girl, identified only as Xiaoyu, in hospital and her boyfriend in distress.
Xiaoyu’s worrying behaviour began in her first year of university, the South China Morning Post reported quoting Du Na, a doctor at The Fourth People’s Hospital of Chengdu.
As per the report, after Xiaoyu, a resident of Sichuan province in southwestern China, developed an intimate relationship with her boyfriend, she became heavily dependent on him and needed him around all the time.
She started badgering him constantly to keep her updated about his whereabouts. She also expected him to return her texts at all hours of the day and night.
This made her boyfriend’s life a misery as he felt uncomfortable and stifled.
A video clip of Xiaoyu also went viral where she was seen repeatedly messaging her boyfriend to switch on his WeChat camera. However, despite the man ignoring the messages, she makes video calls to him anyway.
As per the report, the situation went out of control after Xiaoyu called her boyfriend more than 100 times on day and he did not answer.
She became so upset over this that she started smashing household objects, leading her boyfriend to call the police to stop her.
Police came just in time when Xiaoyu was threatening to jump from the balcony of their home. She was taken to hospital where she was diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder, referred to colloquially as “love brain”.
Quoting Dr Du, the South China Morning Post reported that the “love brain” might coexist with other mental illnesses such as anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder.
The expert said that the condition often occurred in people who had not had a healthy relationship with their parents during childhood.
People with a mild form of this condition could recover on their own by learning to manage their emotions, the doctor said adding that sufferers with extreme symptoms would need medical help.
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