Unlike her dashing screen image, Brigitte Lin is trapped by depression in reality. According to the latest issue of a Hong Kong weekly, on August 20, she went to the Hong Kong Health Emotion Center at the Prince Wales Hospital in Sha Tin with a worried face, for treatment of long-term accumulated depressive moods due to disturbances. She is suspected to have developed clinical depression.
In November 2002, Brigitte Lin's emotions became unstable after her mother committed suicide by jumping from a building due to long-term depression. This situation continued until 2005, when long-term pressure caused her condition to worsen. In May 2006, her father's death plunged Brigitte Lin's emotions into another low point. Then, rumors spread that her husband, Hsieh Li-yuan, was closely involved with a woman in her 30s, causing more psychological pressure for her.
The report said that since Brigitte Lin attended her father's funeral, Hsieh Li-yuan and she have not appeared together in any public places, as they lead separate lives. Recently, it was rumored that Hsieh Li-yuan bought nearly 900 square meters of land in Sai Kung, Hong Kong, to build a new house for her to win back her heart, but their relationship seems not to have improved.