We love taking our Selfies!!! More phones are coming out everyday that is selfie focused, we also have the selfie sticks which has helped us in no small way to take beautiful Selfies. However, some researches has come out to say that taking too much of these Selfies actually means thst we are Mad!!!!.(mental disorder).

The American physcatric Association (APA) Has included taking Selfies as a mental disorder. They defined the disorder as a type of an obsessive compulsive disorder to take one’s own pictures and post them on social media. They also stated that this condition is a mechanism used by people to make up for their low self esteem and increase intimacy with other people.

According to the physcatric body, they are three levels of this mental disorder termed Selfitis

1. BORDERLINE SELFITIS: This is taking three Selfies a day, but not posting them on social media. If you fall into this category you aren’t completely mad Sha… Lol.

2. ACUTE SELFITIS: Taking three Selfies a day and posting them all on social media. If you fall into this Category, you’re a little mad… Lol.

3. CHRONIC SELFITIS: Anything “chronic” can’t be good.
It is defined as an uncontrollable urge to take one’s own pictures round the clock and posting them on social media platforms more than six times a day…. Completely mad! Lol.

Recently, the term “Selfitis” also made it into the Oxford Dictionary of English according to a website.


This one goes to our ladies who can’t do without posting pictures on IG, Facebook, Twitter and all the social media platforms put there….. When they Post it and don’t get any likes or comments they would post another…… APA Is saying that you’re mentally unstable, and you do know where mentally unstable people go na…lol.

On a serious note….. There is more to life than taking Selfies round the clock which sure does seem like a compulsive disorder. If I see someone who takes Selfies round the clock even without the APA saying anything, I’d suspect something is wrong with that person. Youths, let’s channel our energy into building our own empires and Institutions. Facebook and the rest have built theirs…. What have you built? Food for thought