Selfitis a Mental Health Disorder By Kelly Jean Sullivan

 

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Recently, word circulated online that the American Psychiatric Association (APA) had established a new mental disorder called “selfitis” and stated that obsessive photo taking and posting is a way to gain attention, compensate for low self-esteem, and compensate for lack of intimacy

Women who post sexualized selfies are motivated by the attention
 that they do indeed receive from these photos in the form of likes and followers,
 and this self-sexualization doesn’t actually translate to sexual empowerment in offline encounters
Laura R. Ramsey, Amber L. Horan,
Picture this: Women's self-sexualization in photos on social media,
Personality and Individual Differences,
Volume 133,
2018,
Pages 85-90,
ISSN 0191-8869,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.06.022