The American Psychiatric Association
(APA) has recently officially designated taking
selfies as a mental disorder, called selfitis.

The new disease is defined as the obsessive
compulsive desire to take photos of one’s self and
post them on social media in order to make up for
the lack of self-esteem and to fill a gap in intimacy.

What started as an innocent trend, has turned into
a mania.

The APA provided three levels of the disorder: Borderline selfitis: taking photos of one’s self at
least three times a day but not posting them on
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