Though the term “selfitis” was conceived in a 2014 parody article, two researchers “have looked at the term and have decided there could be some truth to it,” according to Business Insider.
Mark D. Griffiths and Janarthanan Balakrishnan published a paper in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction last month, in which they argued that the condition was real.
“They also developed a ‘Selfitis Behaviour Scale’ by surveying the selfie behaviour of 400 participants from India,” Business Insider explained. “The scale assesses the severity of the condition, of which there are three levels.”
Cases ranged from “borderline” to “acute” and even “chronic” stages on the Selfitis Behavior Scale (SBS), the latter meaning those afflicted “cannot control the urge to take photos of themselves all the time.”
“Initially, focus group interviews with 225 Indian university students were carried out to generate potential items for the SBS. The SBS was then validated using 400 Indian university students via exploratory factor analysis (EFA),” explained the study. Six factors were identified in the EFA comprising environmental enhancement, social competition, attention seeking, mood modification, self-confidence, and social conformity. The findings demonstrate that the SBS appears to be a reliable and valid instrument for assessing selfitis but that confirmatory studies are needed to validate the concept more rigorously.”
Following the report, Balakrishnan expressed hope that “further research” would be carried out to further examine the alleged condition.
“Typically, those with the condition suffer from a lack of self-confidence and are seeking to ‘fit in’ with those around them, and may display symptoms similar to other potentially addictive behaviours,” Balakrishnan claimed. “Now the existence of the condition appears to have been confirmed, it is hoped that further research will be carried out to understand more about how and why people develop this potentially obsessive behaviour, and what can be done to help people who are the most affected.”
Mark Salter, a spokesman for the Royal College of Psychiatrists, refuted the report, claiming it was “dangerous” to suggest such a condition actually exists.
“There is a tendency to try and label a whole range of complicated and complex human behaviours with a single word,” he declared. “But that is dangerous because it can give something reality where it really has none.”
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Hey Roosh, do you think these big booty brasileiras “got any skills?”
Too thick for me.
Roosh… do you have any skill?
Don’t get it. What’s your angle? ’cause right now you and “reality” both just sound like a couple of faggots (literally).
Literally (Hitler) faggots? That sounds like fag talk to me.
Sure he does. He trolls the hell out of feminist trash and SJW’s….and ALWAYS wins. Thanks zipperhead!
The ‘do you have any skills?’ question is a mockery of one woman who called and asked Roosh that question in his last epic 5 hour livestream on YouTube.
Little Timmy from Jurassic Park. All grown up.
When a woman says “dont judge”, she asking you to call her a filthy disgusting whore that should be wiped out of societies ass with toilet paper and then thrown into the sewer where she properly belongs.
You are describing yourself just fine, human garbage.
said some random filthy disgusting whore who had been touched by Ron’s comment.
You could diagnose about every single 7+ Americunt with this condition.
And the problem becomes worse when most 4+ western women believe they’re 7+
Urban legend says that elderly Canadian women in their 70s think they are 8+, and in Toronto it’s even worse because 0s becomes 10s automatically.
Could have left the 7+ part off. THE Americunt was good enough to make the point and more correct.
oh definitely, too many selfies is a very clear indicator of mental disorder.
yes, it is linked to narcissism, but paradoxaly to lack of self esteem, need of reassurance (from external source, ie other people, ie : beta suckers) and a tendancy towards depression.
By the way, females who do a lot of selfies are usually shallow, with no real talents nor skills. except posing and pressing a button.
the real problem is, as always, all the beta suckers to flock and cover those bitches with praise. They are the real problem.
edit : all the beta suckers WHO flock.
damn comment system which prevent modifying posts after they have been published. Can’t somebody fix that ?!
The only selfies I ever upload are ones where I’ve done SFX make up. I’ve trained and studied it for years, it gets me some feedback, and a nice bit of work around Halloween. I honestly just share them in the hopes it gets me scouted by a theatre company or something.
“Mark Salter, a spokesman for the Royal College of Psychiatrists, refuted the report, claiming it was “dangerous” to suggest such a condition actually exists.”
“There is a tendency to try and label a whole range of complicated and complex human behaviours with a single word,” he declared. “But that is dangerous because it can give something reality where it really has none.”
He’s just described his own profession. Psychiatric disorders may relate to an underlying biological reality but they are always cultural products: hysteria, stendhal syndrome, folie a deux, not to mention homosexuality that was until recently considered a psychiatric condition. Moreover the are also always normative. That is why Professor Salter is resisting the creation of a new disorder, as his cucked value system presumably is resistant to pathologising a largely female malady. Most people, including women, recognise obsessive selfie taking is a sickness
The pig in the 3rd pic.
SO PROUD that she got a guy “with muscles” to bang her, she just had to put it on the twitter. Now she’ll have something to show her illegitimate children and grandchildren.
As
I thought she looked quite attractive for a white girl.
JD – would I PAY for her? Nope. That is how I judge females. Jaded/Sad? Maybe. But true.
She looks like a Jewess; look at the texture of her hair…Only a fvcking Jewess whore would upload a picture of herself taking it in her asshole.
oh fuck, give us a break with those jew everywhere. comments like yours are fucking tiresome.
we are just talking about some random basic bitch who did attention whoring on social media, that’s all.
When I look at that third pic, a part of me wishes that Islam would take over and start throwing people like them off tall buildings.
Yep.
the bitch face on the very first picture too.
C’mon, let them have some fun.
What about Jewesses who think that they are higher than the rest of us?
Well, they are legitimate by todays standards.
“The fastest way to get a girl to do anything is with a camera”
Max Hardcore quote
Evolutionary Purpose
In the deep past young fertile women from 15-35 did sex shows (As males were gladiators or some proclaimed themselves Shaman) in front of everyone and whichever males fought/chose to reproduce with them.
From an evolutionary perspective the female urge to exhibit themselves is bred into the psyche just as men want to drag home the biggest fish or hit one another with the biggest stick (Then sword, gun, nuclear weapon).
I’ve never really had the urge to hit anyone (male or female).
There must be something wrong with me!
JOHN
Remember than in the US the only royalty are celebrities and they are celebrated for simply BEING ON CAMERA.
The most popular celebrities are not Stephen Hawkins but someone like Jade Goody or Ozzy Osbourne (Whom nobody in the UK has given a shit about for 40 years but is much loved by white trash Americans) who are similar to them.
Social media is sort of poor man’s celebrity and of course women flock to it. Porn was the poor man’s celebrity previously.
Steven Hawkins is a Fraud.
Porn is a Jewish invention.
Start riding the NYC subways.
You’ll get the urge.
Nowhere in the Bible says that a woman should act like a dirty, filthy and degenerate whore.
The only type of women who are hard-wired to display their naked whoreing bodies are Jewesses.
Anne Frank tried to seduce Mein Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, and he had to exterminate her before he would have been falsely accused of sexual interference with a “minor”.
The pic of that broad getting boned tho ahahahhaha.
Priceless.
Also, if you don’t adopt the three dark triad traits of narcissistic, manipulative and sociopathic, you’re essentially not evil enough for most girls. This has been said in a prior article, I believe, written by Roosh.
Truth is, girls want an evil son of a bitch that they can change and mold into a better person. It’s a challenge to them. Also, the only thing a girl hates more than a nice guy is an asshole who they know intuitively do actually be nice guys who are pretending.
Why judge girls for being narcissistic when you could be too? Girls love guys who are full of themselves.
Now I’m not saying become completely evil and self-involved. I mean I’m naturally that way so I have an edge over the vast majority of guys. But the best way to do it, while maintaining your own set of ethics and your own sense of self, is to project that image to girls so powerfully that they can’t tell deep down you’re actually a good person.
Play on.
Well, I’m a bad boy in heart and tried the several last years to appear nice, you know. If you succeed too much with that, girls don’t like you. But a bad boy with some nice traits or moments is actually appreciated, I find. Maybe I just don’t understand women, who knows, but that was my impression.
“Truth is, girls want an evil son of a bitch that they can change and mold into a better person”
exactly, you nailed it.
but beware, that could lead to the infamous intent to turn a hoe into a housewife.
and even roosh fell into that mind trap (as he said in his vid about the 4 things he learned in 2017)
i prefer turning a good girl into my bitch, win-win situation me think.
“i prefer turning a good girl into my bitch, win-win situation me think.”
The sex would never be good, or frequent.
Waste of time, chasing women with proven low sex drives IMHO.
Haha, interesting observation.
Honestly, i come to a point in mty life where i don’t even know if a woman with a high sex drive AND without a fucked up brain (i mean heavy emotionnal issues, bitch behaviour or just dumb and without talent) exists really.
On the other side, a woman with a moderate-low sex drive is almost ridden of major psychological flaws, and is marriage material but.. at the end, she is quite boring in bed..
The internet, Jews and Jewess feminists really created a perfect combination to destroy the moral fabric of society.
Why are Jews behind social media, feminism and other social ills? Jews =Khazars of Mongloid ancestry until Germany made the mistake of importing these rats into their country to breed into half-European races.
Adolf Hitler was the first to react angrily to the Jews!
TODD
You useless uneducated Gen Y son of born-in-the-60’s 1980’s Yuppies.
The Jews were “pogrom’ed” for 1000 years before Adolph.
I live in Croatia and by my understanding in next generation there will be no more marriage material. There are 20-30% girl now, man could marry, but fb, instagram and selfie disease have taken it’s toll. A lot of bad influence on young people. I have my rule, if I marry a woman ( so I have sons and continue the flow of my blood line ) who is not virgin than in my mind I am not obliged to fidelity. I can be faithful only to woman who wasn’t tainted by another man.
Most of the time, a woman taking a selfie in a mirror do not look at the camera lens in the mirror : she looks at herself on her cellphone screen. Isn’t it another subtle proof of narcissism?
Women take selfies to feel good about themselves and post it on social media because it’s the only place they really get compliments these days. Half the time it’s from their friends that are women or they’re trying to get a man’s attention. I don’t understand why a woman would want to get the attention of a man glued to his phone but whatever.
If you’re married or in an LTR and notice your girl is posting or taking more selfies than usual, it’s because she’s feeling ignored by you and is passively craving attention. she doesn’t want to outright say it because it comes off as desperate and needy and we all know how much you men like that sh^t. Plus it’s just not the same when we ask for it. That’s how stuff starts being taken for granted.
Women want attention as much as men want sex.
The women posting lewd pictures like the girl gettin it doggy style was an attention/validate me because I have very low self esteem selfie.
There’s a difference.
@P.A. Beaulieu A woman looking at herself in the camera lens is a better view of her face than in the mirror while she’s trying to pose perfectly. It’s not narcissism its perfectionism. To look perfect to the men viewing it. I think narcissism is thrown around way too much. Everyone has traits and it doesn’t mean they’re a full blown narcissist.
@Toddiver Stein Your mindset is repulsive and hateful I feel sorry for any woman you’re with or end up with.
@faraway & Gordon change your perspective. I guess it doesn’t matter how you choose to look at it though. All women have some kind of ‘issue’ psychologically as much as men do. It’s a matter of what you will/won’t put up with. “Truth is, girls want an evil son of a bitch that they can change and mold into a better person” “i come to a point in my life where i don’t even know if a woman with a high sex drive AND without a fucked up brain (i mean heavy emotionnal issues, bitch behaviour or just dumb and without talent) exists really.” they do exist you’re looking in the wrong places because you’re acting like an evil son of a bitch. You think you’re going to find an angel acting this way?
“Also, the only thing a girl hates more than a nice guy is an asshole who they know intuitively do actually be nice guys who are pretending.” –The only thing a girl hates more is an a man pretending to be something they are not. Guys are much the same wouldn’t you agree?
We may see an asshole as a challenge but it’s only to see the best in said asshole. 9/10 the whole reason women end up with one is because they didn’t see that version of him first. The challenge is getting that back. Most of the time it’s in vain because he’s an asshole pretending to be something he’s not. There’s nothing wrong with being an asshole from time to time. Especially to someone else who deserves it. That’s fu<king sexy. To be one all the time is emotionally draining.
men trying to please a woman is the reason for so much evil and unpleasantness in the world. you just stated its sexy for a man to be an asshole. just because you think someone deserves to be treated poorly doesnt mean you should or that its a good idea. an eye for an eye makes the world blind…except for the last guy who would have 1 eye.
red pill about women from old tamil movie
red pill about women from old tamil movie
In my day we just called Narcissistic Personality Disorder