Too many selfies hurt

Everyone has that friend or friend who always has the internal camera of the phone on. It is not a matter of age, vanity, profession but rather a real pathology. How many times has the term "selfie addicted" peeped out in ironic conversations among friends? In this case, reality surpasses fantasy, because the one for selfies is indeed a real disease.

In fact, a group of U.S. psychologists published a study in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction that states that not only taking too many selfies would be a disease, but that there would even be 3 levels of severity of it.

• Selfitis Borderline: this is the bracket that encompasses those who take selfies more than 3 times a day, but do not post them on their social networks.

• Selfitis Acuta: this is the bracket that encompasses those who take selfies more than 3 times a day and post them on their social networks.

• Selfitis Cronica: this is the range that encompasses those who take selfies for 24 hours a day by posting their image on social media more than 6 times a day.

 

 

 

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But what is the main cause of this pathology? As always, it is one of the evils of our times that peeps out to answer this question: insecurity. In fact, low self-esteem would determine the need for approval from what is one's circle, more or less narrow that it is quantitatively speaking. One can have 3 thousand followers as well as 3 million followers, the result does not change and the need to feel appreciated remains the same.

In addition to the 3 phases mentioned above, the study would then highlight that the personalities most affected by selfie disease are frequent gym-goers: that is precisely where most selfies see the light of day. 

 

 

 

 

 

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It must be the countless mirrors that usually cover the walls of all sports centers, or seeing oneself immediately toned and fit, that triggers so much impetus to photograph oneself between exercises.

The cure is as always detox, so a few days or a few hours for the most fanatical without opening social networks, away from everyone and everything. At most, again the same study, would recommend the inevitable selfie and subsequent posting dedicated to a restricted audience belonging to the strictly family or friendship nucleus.

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