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Selfitis" classified as mental disorder - Researchers say there's a point where a person takes too many selfies. It's called Selfitis. Researchers at Nottingham-Trent University in the United Kingdom have set some guidelines to tell when someone is suffering from the disorder . There are three levels of Selfitis; the worst is chronic Selfitis.

Selfitis–the compulsive need to post selfies is a mental disorder - If you post countless selfies throughout the day on social media–you may be affected with a mental disorder known as 'Selfitis' according to experts. This finding was obtained after Nottingham Trent University and Thiagarajar School of Management carried out a research to determine whether the ...

Can you get addicted to taking selfies? - On March 31, 2014, a story appeared on a website called the Adobo Chronicles that claimed that the American Psychiatric Association (APA) had classed “selfitis” as a new mental disorder . According to the author, the organization had defined selfitis as “the obsessive compulsive desire to take photos of ...

How taking selfies could damage your mental health - what the experts say - Recently, the American Psychiatric Association actually confirmed that taking selfies is a mental disorder , going as far as to term the condition “selfitis”.

Taking Too Many Selfies Confirmed To Be A 'Real Psychological Disorder ' - You might not think that taking too many selfies is a big problem, but according to scientists, 'selfitis' is a genuine thing and is ...

People obsessed with taking selfies may have mental health issues say experts - The term was branded as a hoax after it was coined in 2014, but researchers have looked into the phenomenon and say their study "validates its existence.” The paper, published in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, said: "As with internet addiction, the concepts of selfitis and selfie ...

Selfie addiction 'may be a sign of mental illness ' - Taking selfies and uploading on social media is very popular and there doesn't seem to be an issue with it. However, before you take that next selfie for the gram, two psychologists say selfies may be a sign of mental illness . In 2014, a news article used the word 'selfitis', saying that the American ...