An 18-year-old girl in China was recently diagnosed with 'Love Brain' after she was hospitalised. The Chinese girl whose nickname is Xiaoyu reportedly called her boyfriend more than 100 times a day. As per Chinese media reports, Xiaoyu hails from Sichuan province in southwestern China. The Chinese teen became so obsessed with love that it severely impacted her mental health and made her boyfriend's life a 'living hell'. The Chinese teenager would also badger her partner constantly about his whereabouts and “needed him to be around all the time”. As per reports, Xiaoyu moved out of her home to start university where she met her boyfriend. They soon became intimate, but it all changed when the man started feeling 'uncomfortable and stifled'. Now, the question arises what is Love Brain? Below is everything you need to know-
What is Love Brain?
Chinese media quoted Du Na, a doctor at The Fourth People’s Hospital of Chengdu. Du Na revealed that Xiaoyu’s worrying behaviour began in her first year of university. Xiaoyu and her boyfriend developed an intimate relationship, but he soon felt uncomfortable and stifled because she became heavily dependent on him and needed him around all the time.
Later the doctors found out that Xiaoyu had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, colloquially referred to as 'love brain'. Du Na, the person who treated Xiaoyu, said that the 'condition might coexist with other mental illnesses such as anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder'.
How did Xiaoyu come under the scanner of Doctors?
As per reports, one day Xiaoyu called her boyfriend more than 100 times but he did not answer. As a result, Xiaoyu became so upset and angry that she threw household objects and smashed them around the home. On this, the boyfriend called the police, who arrived just as she threatened to jump from a balcony. Xiaoyu went to hospital, where she was diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder, referred to colloquially as 'love brain'.
However, What is Xiaoyu's cause of Love Brain has not been revealed by the Doctors. Still, the doctor hinted that it often occurred in people who had not had a healthy relationship with their parents during childhood.