Selfies And Your Mental Health

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Do you like taking selfies? How many do you take a day? Do you post them on social media? If the answer is yes, be careful, you could suffer from one of the scales of a condition called "selfitis".

The obsession with taking photos of yourself appears to be a genuine mental disorder, research by psychiatrists suggests, a DailyMail article indicates. Inclusively, an examination or test has been created to know in which of the scales people can be in their obsession with taking a photo.

The British newspaper note states that in 2014 a medical article indicated that the term selfitis was considered a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association. Following this, the Nottingham Trent and Thiagarajar School of Management universities in Madurai, India investigated. They found that yes, indeed, disorder was a phenomenon, and it really exists.

The study that found that “selfitis” has three scales: “on the edge”, “acute” and “chronic”. In other words, "on the edge" is when you take selfies three times a day but don't upload it to the networks. Meanwhile, "sharp" is when you take many photos and upload them to the networks. So, chronic according to DailyMail indicates is when a person feels that prevailing need to constantly take photos and publish them on the networks, -be it on Facebook or Instagram-, more than six times a day. Yes, for some this can be a lot, but for others it is uncontrollable. The study carried out had a sample of 200 people in focus groups and you found 400 people. Physiologists found that self-sufferers typically were people seeking care and often lacking self-confidence.