The Phenomenon of Selfie In the Location of the Tsunami Disaster, a Sign of Mental Disorder?

The phenomenon of Selfie in the location of the Tsunami disaster, a sign of Mental disorder?-News that shows something unusual. He found several people who came to the tsunami location on the coast of the Sunda Strait. These people channeled aid to disaster victims, but they also carried out selfies at the disaster site. Even though this is normal, many people call it a sign of lack of empathy at the disaster site. And this is a mental health disorder.

Selfie considered the evidence and the existence of

Based on reports written Jamie, the woman called selfie that he did act as evidence that they have been in the disaster site and provide assistance. In addition, the photos on the site of the disaster also could invite a like or comment on social media and group WhatsApp. It's just that, selfie they take quite done with a happy facial look or show off.

In addition to these women, Jamie also found some other people who even intentionally away visit the disaster site just to look around and get a selfie at the venue.

It's not new in Indonesia

In fact, doing a selfie at the disaster site is not new in Indonesia. A similar case has been widely performed in the country. Not only is done by regular society, but some people also do it, officer. One thing is for sure, those who upload photos selfie at the site of the disaster or grief often get the blasphemy of socialite.

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Search for existence?

Prof. Drs. Koentjoro, MSc, Ph.D., who is a Professor of the Faculty of a psychology of the University of Gadjah Mada (UGM) mentions selfie habit turned out to have given a big impact to human behavior. Unfortunately, this change is not always positive.

In many cases, a selfie is often done without paying attention to the surrounding conditions. Because the preferred is the moment that is not necessarily going to happen or found in another time and place, then we are more worried about selfie though it can give a sense of disappointment or anger to others who are grieving due to affected.

Does hobby selfie indicate the disorders of the soul?

In the medical world, the perpetrator of an already excessive selfie referred to as the selfies. These conditions make such Person with him have a great need to photograph himself and uploaded it in social media. This term was created by experts of the American Psychiatric Association in the past 2014 to describe excessive obsession to do a selfie.

Other studies conducted by Dr. Mark Griffiths of Nottingham Trent University and colleagues from Thiagarajar School of Management, India also produces similar facts. In a study involving 400 participants of this, researchers are trying to understand the severity of the selfies behavior of the participants who came from India, the country's largest Facebook social media users in the world.

Research results are published in the International Journal of Mental Health and this resulted in Addition to the fact that there are three selfies levels experienced by the participants.

The first is selfies borderline levels or reasonable. They are included in this group was able to take the selfie three times a day but not uploading to social media. The second level is the level of acute which makes them upload photos to social media, and the last is a chronic level.

This last condition makes a person have a huge urge to do selfie all the time and uploading to social media up to six times or more in a day.

According to the researchers, the person with this selfies included in the less confident, like looking for attention, and have great expectations can make their social status increases. With frequent uploading selfie, they feel they can be part of a group or social environment. Unfortunately, this action is indeed likely to be causing of the Adiksi or hooked.

Though we did love exist in social media, we should also pay attention to the location or conditions around us so that action selfie conducted not to hurt the feelings of others, particularly new experience a disaster.