Three IT-Disorders And Scandalous Related Cases in the World

Oscar Otero Aguilar
Naij.com --- The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has recently officially designated taking selfies as a mental disorder, called selfitis.

The new disease is defined as the obsessive compulsive desire to take photos of one’s self and post them on social media in order to make up for the lack of self-esteem and to fill a gap in intimacy.

What started as an innocent trend, has turned into a mania.

The APA provided three levels of the disorder:

Borderline selfitis: taking photos of one’s self at least three times a day but not posting them on social media;

Acute selfitis:

taking photos of one’s self at least three times a day and posting each of the photos on social media; Chronic selfitis:

Uncontrollable urge to take photos of one’s self round the clock and posting the photos on social media more than six times a day.

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Quite a number of sad cases have been associated with taking selfies.

For example, this young man named Oscar Otero Aguilar killed himself after taking a selfie with the gun, which accidentally discharged and mortally wounded him.

The 21-year-old Mexican died on his way to the hospital.

And here is another tragic story of teenager Xenia Ignatyeva who fell of the 30-feet railway bridge and was electrocuted when she tried to grab live wires.

This occurred when the 17-year-old Russian girl was making a selfie.


Xenia Ignatyeva
Gaming

In May 2013, the APA proposed criteria for identifying video game addiction as a mental disorder.

Although at that time the provided information was considered insufficient, this might change soon.

Numerous studies show that children are most vulnerable to video game addiction, which might be associated with aggressive behaviour and hostility.

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A 22-year-old unemployed man from South Korea left his 28-month-old son at home to starve to death while he played online computer games at an internet cafe for several days.

Daniel Petric, aged 17, murdered his mother and seriously injured his father when they refused to let him play the popular video game, Halo 3 (a shooter).

Social Media

The number of studies dedicated to the negative influence of social media on people’s lives is gradually increasing.

One of the researches contains:

“On the surface, Facebook provides an invaluable resource for fulfilling the basic human need for social connection.

But rather than enhance well-being, we found that Facebook use predicts the opposite result – it undermines it.”

Facebook has been linked to a surprising number of undesirable mental health consequences: depression, low self-esteem, jealousy, anxiety, loneliness, aggression among others.

There is no formal definition or diagnosis of social media depression at this time.

However, health experts agree that children and teenagers are more sensitive to media influences.

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Phoebe Prince, aged 15, committed suicide after having been cyber-bullied for months.


Phoebe Prince
Prince had moved from Ireland to Massachusetts, US.

What is more horrible, a group of schoolmates had been continuing bullying campaign against Prince even after her death.

Brian Lewis killed his wife, Hayley Jones after she changed her Facebook profile from ‘married’ to ‘single’ (year 2009).