New study finds taking too many selfies is bad and can lead to ‘Selfitis’

A new study says taking too many selfies to make you feel good is an actual illness. But how do you know if you’ve got it?

Psychologists say it is now considered a real mental condition.

The team of researchers found taking self-portraits daily can help increase a person’s overall mood and fight off the feeling of stress and loneliness.

If you think you may be suffering from this disorder, you can quickly diagnose it to be sure.

All you have to do is evaluate 20 statements and decide how you feel by ranking each of them with a value between one and five.

The “Selfitis” Behavior Scale

Using the statements below, rate them 1 to 5, where 5 is strongly agree, and 1 is strongly disagree. The higher your score, the greater the likelihood is that you suffer from selfitis.

Taking selfies gives me a good feeling to better enjoy my environment

Sharing my selfies creates healthy competition with my friends and colleagues

I gain enormous attention by sharing my selfies on social media

I am able to reduce my stress level by taking selfies

I feel confident when I take a selfie

I gain more acceptance among my peer group when I take selfies and share them on social media

I am able to express myself more in my environment through selfies

Taking different selfie poses helps increase my social status

I feel more popular when I post my selfies on social media

Taking more selfies improves my mood and makes me feel happy

I become more positive about myself when I take selfies

I become a strong member of my peer group through selfie postings

Taking selfies provides better memories about the occasion and the experience

I post frequent selfies to get more ‘likes’ and comments on social media

By posting selfies, I expect my friends to appraise me

Taking selfies instantly modifies my mood

I take more selfies and look at them privately to increase my confidence

When I don’t take selfies, I feel detached from my peer group

I take selfies as trophies for future memories

I use photo editing tools to enhance my selfie to look better than others

The higher the score you have, the more likely it is you’ve come down with “selfitis”.

According to the research, if you have a high score it means you’re balancing low self-confidence with obsessive attention-seeking and you choose to connect further with the social media world to feel like part of a larger group that doesn’t necessarily exist.