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Do you take selfies and post it online? You might have selfitis: Check yourself here

A study into selfitis, an obsession with taking selfies, has confirmed its existence and developed a method to assess the seriousness of the condition.

On 2014, a spoof news became viral, which stated that the American Psychiatric Association had termed excessive selfie-taking as a mental disorder, similar to “nomophobia’, the extreme fear of not having a mobile phone on one’s person. It defined selfitis as the “obsessive compulsive desire to take photos of one’s self and post them on social media.

The latest study was conducted on 400 subjects from India, which records the highest number of Facebook users. Questions were posed to the candidates, which they had to rate from one to five, depending on whether they strongly agree or disagree with the statement. The test included statements like “I feel confident when I take a selfie”, “By posting selfies, I expect my friends to appraise me”,”I use photo-editing tools to enhance my selfie to look better than others”, etc.

One of the researchers said that people who lack self-confidence and crave for approval from their peers “display symptoms similar to other potentially addictive behaviors.”
The study ranked the extent of the addiction into three different categories on the SBS: borderline, acute and chronic.

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