Psychologists claim that taking three or more selfies a day could be a sign of mental illness.
In 2014, a spoof news article coined the term "selfitis," saying that the American Psychiatric Association was going to start recognising it as a real disorder.
Three years on, two researchers have looked at the term and have decided there could be some truth to it.
Psychologists Mark D. Griffiths and Janarthanan Balakrishnan have published a paper in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, in which they argue that selfitis is a real condition, and can be diagnosed as excessive selfie taking.
They also developed a "Selfitis Behaviour Scale" by surveying the selfie behaviour of 400 participants from India. The scale assesses the severity of the condition, of which there are three levels.
India was chosen for the study as the country has the most selfie-related deaths. Out of 127 selfie-related deaths that have been reported worldwide between March 2014 and September 2016, 76 occurred in India.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Tuesday January 16 2018, @07:22PM
Well, even if you take no other selfies all month long, that's still an average of over six self-photography incidents per day for January. That seems clinically significant that you would maintain such a high average over a month's time. Your friends here on this site and I are telling you this for your own good, really.
Wait, update, we tossed out the day with the fewest selfies, and the day with the most, and your projected average is now somehow fewer than one per day. Are you sure you're feeling okay?