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Self-portrait addiction is already recognized as mental disorder
British Junaid Ahmed has 50,000 followers on the Instagram and admits he is addicted to selfies.The 22-year-old takes about 200 self-portraits a day.He calculates carefully when he will post each photo on social networks so that it has the largest possible number of tanned. And if you have less than 600, it turns off."When I post a photo, in a minute or two I probably already have 100 people who like it. My phone goes crazy, it's just amazing."A recent study has suggested that self-obsession is a genuine mental disorder, called selfitis.The desire to take selfies and post them on social networks more than six times a day is a chronic selfitis, according to researchers at the University of Nottingham Trent in England and the Thiagarajar School of Management in India.Ahmed admits that his his selfies cause friction with his family. "They say, 'Can you make a meal without taking a picture?'""And I say, 'No, I did not get ready for three hours without a reason.' Why would not I take a picture?"He says the negative comments about his photos no longer affect him as before - but admits that he has transformed his face because of social pressure."I used to be quite natural, but I had an obsession with social networks ... I wanted to upgrade." Then I put facets on my teeth, chin filling, cheek, lips, botox under the eyes and head, I tattooed my eyebrows and did cryolipolysis. "Ahmed says he realizes how negative social networks can be.
"What you see on social networks is not the truth," he says. "Social networking is fun if you use it the right way, but do not let it affect your life because you want to be what someone else is on Instagram, it's not worth it."

In the United Kingdom, the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) calls on the British government and social media platforms to install pop-up alerts on mobile phones, which would be activated whenever the user went online for more than two hours. The proposal comes in the wake of research and demonstrations by children's advocates who argue that social networks bring harm to young people.
In January more than 100 experts and international organizations on child health asked Facebook to extinguish its messaging application aimed at children under 13, Messenger Kids, claiming it was "irresponsible" to aim to encourage young children to use the social network .
"Seven out of ten teenagers told us they have received support (from people) on social networks in difficult times," says Shirley Cramer, chief executive of RSPH. "But we also know that depression and anxiety are fueled by social networks."

Source: bbc.com