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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 Grishnakh on Tuesday January 16 2018, @07:47PM (1 child)
Tell us, oh high priests of psychology, what is the exact thing we should be doing every last fucking minute of our day? Anybody else who disagrees is mentally ill! Drug them until they can't move! Invent better drugs so that
You're confusing psychologists with psychiatrists. Psychologists don't prescribe medications. They basically take your money and sit with you and let you talk; they make lots of money for just sitting there and listening really. Psychiatrists, on the other hand, don't want to talk to you very much, and would rather just give you medications to see what you think works for you.
I suspect the problem seen in TFA is that there's some psychologists who feel a strong need to publish papers (perhaps they work for a university...) and because of this, are happy to make up new things to write papers about.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @10:14AM
Very interesting. I'd like to set up some interviews with you, say ... once a week for the rest of your life, to try to better understand your interpretations of these fields. Please be sure to complete your insurance form before arriving.