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| - Nearly all known sufferers of Wikipersecution Complex are young males aged 18 to 25, though potential cases have been noted in other gender and age groups. Generally speaking, a wiki user, or wikipedian, who has insulted, berated, or offended another user will begin to experience feelings of regret or remorse, combined with mild anxiety regarding both his own actions and what the other user might do in response. At some point, he will probably attempt to apologize for these actions, but if his apologies are ignored or otherwise not accepted, the anxiety can grow into full-blown panic attacks, complete with severe heart palpitations, sweating, nausea, and sleeplessness. If sleep is not obtained swiftly, either through drug therapy or hypnosis, nervous breakdown and wikipedepression can resu
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| - Nearly all known sufferers of Wikipersecution Complex are young males aged 18 to 25, though potential cases have been noted in other gender and age groups. Generally speaking, a wiki user, or wikipedian, who has insulted, berated, or offended another user will begin to experience feelings of regret or remorse, combined with mild anxiety regarding both his own actions and what the other user might do in response. At some point, he will probably attempt to apologize for these actions, but if his apologies are ignored or otherwise not accepted, the anxiety can grow into full-blown panic attacks, complete with severe heart palpitations, sweating, nausea, and sleeplessness. If sleep is not obtained swiftly, either through drug therapy or hypnosis, nervous breakdown and wikipedepression can result. This can occur in spite of the high likelihood that the other user's failure to respond is due only to his or her having failed to visit the wiki recently, either out of simple disinterest or because of his or her disgust with the user's behavior and the fact that the wiki's administrators encourage it purely for the amusement value. Cases in which the user is a wikithug are especially serious, since wikithuggery is closely related to narcissism and various low self-esteem disorders in which the sufferer uses an artificial online persona to build up his own self-image. When this facade is crumbled by intimidation or humiliation - in effect, retaliatory wikithuggery - within the online community, the wikithug may be driven to a homicidal rage and become a danger to his family, friends, and colleagues, if he has any. He may also turn his rage inwardly, possibly resulting in self-mutilation, suicide, or halitosis.
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