What Is Selfitis? Obsessive Selfie Takers Could Have Mental Disorder

[Swift]

If you take at least three photos of yourself a day and post them to social media, you might have an acute case of selfitis,according to a new study published in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction.

The study was conducted to try and verify a hoax story that was published in 2014 that claimed there was such a condition as "selfitis." People who have selfitis are those who take selfies or self-portrait-like photos of themselves to excess, the study said. That initial study from 2014 set in motion further studies on the possible condition and led to its eventual validation.

This sort of examination has happened with other new technologies in the past as well, like in 1995 when the idea of internet addiction was first introduced in a paper by Mark D. Griffiths. Griffiths was one of the first to suggest such technological addictions, like internet addiction, and also worked on the new study published in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction.


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[Solid Snake]

The easiest way to explain this is the "Dopamine High" that comes with using social media. People get high on seeing their pictures liked and it becomes and obsession and an addiction. We all like compliments but this has gone too far. People are obsessed with selfies and being self-absorbed on social media and it is altering their brains like a drug.