Chicago, Illinois – The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has officially confirmed what many people thought all along: taking ‘selfies’ is a mental disorder.
The APA made this classification during its annual board of directors meeting in Chicago. The disorder is called selfitis, and is defined as the obsessive compulsive desire to take photos of one’s self and post them on social media as a way to make up for the lack of self-esteem and to fill a gap in intimacy.
APA said there are three levels of the disorder:
- Borderline selfitis : taking photos of one’s self at least three times a day but not posting them on social media
- Acute selfitis: taking photos of one’s self at least three times a day and posting each of the photos on social media
- Chronic selfitis: Uncontrollable urge to take photos of one’s self round the clock and posting the photos on social media more than six times a day
According to the APA, while there is currently no cure for the disorder, temporary treatment is available through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). The other good news is that CBT is covered under Obamacare.
This is unwelcome news for Makati City in the Philippines, especially for its mayor, Junjun Binay, son of the incumbent vice president. Makati was recently named selfie capital of the world by Time Magazine. The mayor even organized a ticker tape parade after his city was bestowed the rare honor.
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UPDATE: APA Defends Its Use of ‘Selfitis’ Terminology.
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Finally!
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Is it going to defend its use of the words chronic and acute as well? Chronic is less severe than acute. Chronic- slow onset- usually less severe results. Acute- Fast onset- usually more severe results. Ex: Acute back pain- Normally back is fine, but out of no where (for no reason or because of injury) you have a very sharp, stabbing pain in your back. Chronic back pack- on an almost daily basis you have a dull pain in your back. You can also have chronic with spurts of acute, like always a dull acting pain but some days is a sharp pain. Chronic heart failure: Your heart is slowly failing, therefore symptoms will be lighter than if it were quickly failing. Acute heart failure: Your heart is suddenly quickly failing, therefore you’ll have more dire symptoms quicker.
So now that we’ve reviewed two basic words, can anyone tell me how acute could equal 3 selfies a day while chronic equals at least 6? First, acute would have more selfies and second acute cannot happen every single day.
So it should be: Acute: Will go weeks without posting selfies, then will suddenly have a strong urge to post at least selfies within that day.
Chronic: Has a persistant nagging urge to post selfies every day, usually posts three selfies a day.
Basically, acute is an a fast dramatic episode while chronic is a slow low key long term issue.
Iyyyiiiyiii!
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Many readers will be fooled with this article. haha!
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Maybe “selfitis” mean full of yourself lol. The name of the illness is suspect but the description might be true, because I do know a few people who takes lots of photos of photos of themselves and posting them on Facebook. I know one particular person who takes photos of herself alone or with her husband together but I know she lives a miserable life and her marriage is a wreck so this article might be on something.
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Ha! Take a selfie of you sharing this on facebook…
Seriously though “selfitis”? Really?! Itis = inflammation of so selfitis would mean inflammation of your self….. Somehow knowing this, I do not place much value on this article.
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of course you knew this wasn’t satire *chuckles*
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Unfortunatly a dutch newspaper covered this article thinking it is true. It’s the most retarded newspaper in the Netherlands (de telegraaf) but unfortunatly a lot of dumb people still read that paper and think this shit is for reals now.
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Hahaha.. Lol
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Exactly! finally someone with a brain… I’ve been saying this since it started blowing up on facebook! Thank you.
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