 In the year 2013, the Oxford English Dictionary adopted the word selfie, making it clear to us how much of an importance taking selfies have become. According to that definition, a selfie refers to a self-portrait photography of oneself or oneself with other people taking with a camera or a camera phone held at Armsland or pointed at a mirror which is usually shared through social media. Taking selfies might be fun, but experts wonder if there is not a bigger problem to why we take too many selfies. Psychologists say you might have selfies if you are taking too many. According to the American Psychiatric Association, APA, Self-Find is, as the obsessive compulsive desire to take photos of oneself and post them on social media as a way to make up for the lack of self-esteem and to fill a gap in intimacy. A 2017 study, published in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction by Janathanan Thalakrishnan and Mark D. Griffiths, asked young people in India to report their behavior, suggests compulsive selfie taking can lead to self-fiders. According to the study, in 2014, stories appeared in national and international media claiming that the condition of self-fiders, the obsessive taking of selfies, was to be classed as a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association and that the condition could be borderline, acute, or a chronic. Another recent study looked at a group of students and related their selfie-taking behavior to six categories, self-confidence, attention-seeking, mood modification, environmental enhancement, conformity, and social competition. Researchers said that looking at the changing landscape of technology might help gain a better understanding of how overusing technology can lead to addictive behaviors. Cleveland Clinic Scott B. Doctor of Psychology said, oftentimes, people post selfies to boost their mood or play a game of comparison. It ends up having to do something with our brain chemistry. People are trying to treat their brain, stimulate positive chemistry, and there's a social comparison thing going on as well. We look at other people, they're having great lives. I want to look like I'm having a great life. So I post my best moments, or best photos, out on the internet, focusing too much on ourselves, tend to enhance bad feelings, and sometimes, we will take measures to try to counteract those bad feelings, and they're not always healthy. When that self-awareness becomes intense, we're often chatting about what's wrong with us. It's a place we go to experience low mood states, anxiety, tension, and it all comes down from how we interact with thoughts, and a lot of times, thoughts about ourselves or our future. Dr. B. said, gaining control over our own social media behavior comes down to setting limits for ourselves. Stay away from your phone for periods of time, try not to access it so that you gain governance, he said. When we're getting involved with our emotional brain, it really overrides our prefrontal cortex, the part of our brain that helps make good decisions, plan, and predict the future and the consequences of our behaviors. We don't have to cut out selfies altogether to have a healthy relationship with social media. It's okay to have some fun with it, but just don't get swept away. Dr. Romani Dervisula, a professor of psychology at California State University, said, A selfie addiction is when a person is almost obsessively taking selfies multiple times a day and posting that to whatever it might be, Snapchat or Facebook, Instagram. Dervisula says, If more than 50% of your photos are selfies and you're using filters frequently, those are signs. Most studies are showing this. More time spent on social media sites negatively affects people's self-esteem, can make a person less able to cope, more likely to have anxiety, depression, that sort of thing. According to Dervisula, to help you avoid self-hidies, put your phone down and create selfie-free zones. As Dervisula says, If you suspect a friend is addicted to selfies, you can help by not liking or validating their photos. The results of the study carried out by Janathanan Balakrishnan of the Thirgurjaya School of Management in Madhura, India and Mark D. Griffiths of Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, UK was published in International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. The dual researchers studied the behavior of over 600 Indian University students. Afterwards, they used the behavior of the study participants to break down self-hidies into three levels, acute, chronic and borderline. By doing this, they developed the Self-Hidies Behavior Scale, SBS, which is further broken down into several sub-categories indicative of why people take selfies. When an average age of 20, the students proved to be an ideal group for exploring the phenomenon. Balakrishnan and Griffiths leveraged 225 students to create the scale. Thereafter, they verified their findings with another group of 400 students. They discovered the following were factors most indicative of why people took selfies, environmental enhancement, social competition, attention seeking, mood modification, self-confidence and social conformity. Those who suffered from chronic self-hidies were found to do so due to high levels of social competition. The researchers concluded that social competition is a big factor in other obsessive behaviors as well, such as excessive video gaming or gambling. The result of testing 400 students was this. 34% suffered from borderline self-hidies, 40.50% acute self-hidies, and 25.50% chronic self-hidies. People's had slightly higher rates, 57.50% compared to 42.50% for women. The younger the subject, the higher the rate of self-hidies. Over half of the participants aged 16-20 suffered from some degrees of self-hidies, with the numbers dropping sharply among those 25 and older. Balakrishnan to the New York Post typically, those with the condition suffer lack of self-confidence and are seeking to fit in with those around them and may display symptoms similar to other potentially addictive behaviors. Apparently, 55% of students took 1-4 each day, with only 9% taking more than 8. Interestingly, 34% never posted their selfies online, which may seem counterintuitive, based on the importance of social media platforms in today's culture. An African-American woman, Taylor Smith, admits to taking hundreds of selfies a day. She said, it gives me confidence, because sometimes I feel you know everything doesn't translate on camera, but then to turn and see, oh my god, and my teeth look great, my eyebrows match. This is great. When asked if she was obsessed, she said, no, I am just a selfie connoisseur. Sometimes I just want to get that perfect picture, she said. Sometimes it takes 200 times to get it right. If this video inspired you, share it with your friends. We love you.