Selfitis, the obsessive taking of selfies, may be a real mental disorder

A viral article published in 2014 claimed that the American Psychiatric Association had established a new mental disorder called "selfitis" -- that is, the obsessive taking of selfies. That article, though fake, inspired a real exploratory study to determine whether a condition like the one described in the article could exist...and, the research shows, it very well may. Of note, the fake viral article had claimed that selfitis existed across three levels of severity: borderline, acute, and chro...