Close X
Friday, October 4, 2024
ADVT 
Interesting

Too much twitter may drive you crazy

Darpan News Desk IANS, 07 Aug, 2014 08:59 AM
  • Too much twitter may drive you crazy
If you have a tendency to read and post tweets for several hours a day, watch out for psychiatric disorders.
 
According to researchers, an overdose of Twitter may drive you psychotic.
 
The study detailed the case of Mrs C - a 31-year-old heavy Twitter user - who was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Germany because of intensive suicidal thoughts.
 
Mrs C's development of psychotic symptoms coincided with her "excessive" use of Twitter - up to several hours a day reading and posting tweets, claimed the paper titled "Twitter Psychosis: A Rare Variation or a Distinct Syndrome?".
 
According to the paper, "the first symptoms were that she believed a 'famous actor' was responding to her tweets through symbols in his messages or through retweets by others".
 
The woman later recovered and lost interest in Twitter.
 
If we believe experts, Twitter psychosis does not appear to be "real" at this point.
 
"This is a single case which we presented to the medical community to discuss with colleagues if they have made similar experiences," Jan Kalbitzer of Charite-Universitatsmedizin, Berlin, was quoted as saying in NBC News.
 
The paper appeared in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

MORE Interesting ARTICLES

Now, predict first impressions

Now, predict first impressions
Now, it is possible to accurately predict first impressions using physical features in everyday facial images such as those found on social media, says a study...

Now, predict first impressions

This is why dogs sniff each other's butts

This is why dogs sniff each other's butts
You may have witnessed this scene on the road quite often but the answer to why dogs sniff each other's butts is hidden in the chemical communication at the rear end....

This is why dogs sniff each other's butts

Decoded: What triggers sexual arousal in you

Decoded: What triggers sexual arousal in you
The behaviours like seeing, smelling and sexual arousal that "come naturally and do not have to be learned" occur because of two classes of pheromone...

Decoded: What triggers sexual arousal in you

Stomach most hated body part: Research

Stomach most hated body part: Research
Stomachs have been voted the most hated part of the body by the British, followed by love handles and bingo wings, according to new research by non-surgical...

Stomach most hated body part: Research

Australian children hide internet usage from parents

Australian children hide internet usage from parents
In a survey released Monday, 70 percent of Australian children aged between 8-17, said that their parents did not know about their internet usage...

Australian children hide internet usage from parents

'Dropped' calls may measure rainfall

'Dropped' calls may measure rainfall
We know that cellphone calls break up and crackle when it rains. But did you ever think that tracking this disruption in cellphone signals could help you calculate the amount of rainfall?

'Dropped' calls may measure rainfall