China Woman Diagnosed With 'Love Brain' After Calling Boyfriend 100 Times

A woman in China was diagnosed with “love brain” after she continued calling her boyfriend repeatedly, including a day when she called him over 100 times. As per reports, the 18-year-old woman would also badger her partner constantly about his whereabouts and “needed him to be around all the time”.

The 18-year-old Chinese woman was taken to doctors and diagnosed with ‘love brain’ after police came to her house following a complaint from her boyfriend (representational image). (Unsplash/charlesdeluvio)

According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the woman, Xiaoyu, was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, colloquially referred to as “love brain”. Du Na, a doctor at The Fourth People’s Hospital of Chengdu and the person who treated Xiaoyu, said that the “condition might coexist with other mental illnesses such as anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder”.