What Is ‘Love Brain’ A Girl From China Was Diagnosed With?

New Delhi: Falling in love is one thing but being addicted to love is something entirely different. This addiction could be a medical condition. This is what happened to an 18-year-old girl in China, who called her boyfriend “more than 100 times a day.” She 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, News18 reported.

Xiaoyu’s worrying behaviour began in her first year of university, said Du Na, a doctor at The Fourth People’s Hospital of Chengdu said, News 18 reported quoting the South China Morning Post.

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 and also expected him to return her texts at all hours of the day and night.