Selfie competition

[Joe Le Taxi]

 

Stormtrooper selfie. Pretty sure I have an Iron Man one somewhere too.

[Remmie]

Mullet selfie

[Remmie]

[Joe Le Taxi]

Terry Butcher selfie

 

[Spy Bee]

My lost Hispanic Papa:

 

Is that one of them three dudes off the Doritos ads?

[Spy Bee]

Yep same dude

Oh

[Spy Bee]

Terry Butcher selfie

 

Terry Butcher Selfie. Weirdest sentence ever!

[Flying Pig]

This is for the dyslexics amongst us.

 

 

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[Bjornebye]

[Champ]

That boy needs to get his boobs checked. There's something no right there.

 

 

And forgive me but how are people managing to take selfies with 2 hands showing?

[setreal]

They are very quick.

[VladimirIlyich]

That boy needs to get his boobs checked. There's something no right there.

 

 

And forgive me but how are people managing to take selfies with 2 hands showing?

A mirror?

[Stickman]

Thats the same camera that I have....and thank fuck that's where the similarity ends

[Total Longo]

Remmie rules.

[Champ]

A mirror?

But you'd see the camera then, wouldnt you?

[cloggypop]

 

Scientists Link Selfies To Narcissism, Addiction & Mental Illness

April 4, 2014 Filed under Life, News Posted by Realnews24

Image Credit: Flickr / Nicola Sapiens De Mitri

The growing trend of taking smartphone selfies is linked to mental health conditions that focus on a person’s obsession with looks.

According to psychiatrist Dr David Veal: “Two out of three of all the patients who come to see me with Body Dysmorphic Disorder since the rise of camera phones have a compulsion to repeatedly take and post selfies on social media sites.”

“Cognitive behavioural therapy is used to help a patient to recognise the reasons for his or her compulsive behaviour and then to learn how to moderate it,” he told the Sunday Mirror.

A British male teenager tried to commit suicide after he failed to take the perfect selfie. Danny Bowman became so obsessed with capturing the perfect shot that he spent 10 hours a day taking up to 200 selfies. The 19-year-old lost nearly 30 pounds, dropped out of school and did not leave the house for six months in his quest to get the right picture. He would take 10 pictures immediately after waking up. Frustrated at his attempts to take the one image he wanted, Bowman eventually tried to take his own life by overdosing, but was saved by his mom.

“I was constantly in search of taking the perfect selfie and when I realized I couldn’t, Iwantedto die. I lost my friends, my education, my health and almost my life,” he told The Mirror.

The teenager is believed to be the UK’s first selfie addict and has had therapy to treat his technology addiction as well as OCD and Body Dysmorphic Disorder.

Part of his treatment at the Maudsley Hospital in London included taking away his iPhone for intervals of 10 minutes, which increased to 30 minutes and then an hour.

“It was excruciating to begin with but I knew I had to do it if I wanted to go on living,” he told the Sunday Mirror.

Public health officials in the UK announced that addiction to social media such as Facebook and Twitter is an illness and more than 100 patients sought treatment every year.

“Selfiesfrequently trigger perceptions of self-indulgence or attention-seeking social dependence that raises the damned-if-you-do and damned-if-you-don’t spectre of either narcissism or very low self-esteem,” said Pamela Rutledge in Psychology Today.

The big problem with the rise of digital narcissism is that it puts enormous pressure on people to achieve unfeasible goals, without making them hungrier. Wanting to be Beyoncé, Jay Z or a model is hard enough already, but when you are not prepared to work hard to achieve it, you are better off just lowering your aspirations. Few things are more self-destructive than a combination of high entitlement and a lazy work ethic. Ultimately, online manifestations of narcissism may be little more than a self-presentational strategy to compensate for a very low and fragile self-esteem. Yet when these efforts are reinforced and rewarded by others, they perpetuate the distortion of reality and consolidate narcissistic delusions.

The addiction to selfies has also alarmed health professionals in Thailand. “To pay close attention to published photos, controlling who sees or who likes or comments them, hoping to reach the greatest number of likes is a symptom that ‘selfies’ are causing problems,” said Panpimol Wipulakorn, of the Thai Mental Health Department.

The doctor believed that behaviours could generate brain problems in the future, especially those related to lack of confidence.

The word “selfie” was elected “Word of the Year 2013″ by the Oxford English Dictionary. It is defined as “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website”.

 

http://www.realnews24.com/scientists-link-selfies-to-narcissism-addiction-mental-illness/

 

[Lee909]

For fucks sake

Can we just have a massive battle royale for anyone under 23. Maybe shoot half the 23-25 year old if they log into faceache or twatter more than once aday

[Jairzinho]

Is that article real life?

[cloggypop]

Is that article real life?

Apparently. It reads like something from the Daily Mash.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2601606/Take-lot-selfies-Then-MENTALLY-ILL-Two-thirds-patients-body-image-disorders-obsessively-photos-themselves.html

 

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/selfies-linked-narcissism-addiction-mental-illness-say-scientists-1441480

 

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/selfies-linked-narcissism-addiction-mental-illness-scientists-151813691.html#iLzWrLI

[eeyore]

[General Dryness]

Fucking hell Mark, you're the spit of Robbie Fowler. Who's that cunt with you?

[Acid]

For fucks sake

Can we just have a massive battle royale for anyone under 23. Maybe shoot half the 23-25 year old if they log into faceache or twatter more than once aday

 

I don't log in, I clicked the remember me button. Get with it grandad.

[Alan Sex]

[General Dryness]

I'd probably wait for the next bus. Whats Hodor?

[Joe Le Taxi]

Hodor