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| - Noted psychiatrist Sigmundheimer F. Rhoid, in his recently-published study entitled The Information Highway to Information Hell, suggests that wikiphrenia may be closer to a form of inferiority complex than to pure schizophrenia. "Almost all wikiphrenics are male, or at least present themselves as males while online," says Rhoid. "For most males, lack of attention or support from parents leads directly to an internalized inflation of the superego in response, artificially bolstering low self-esteem and creating an extremely fragile ego-facade. Online activity encourages this trend, since negative reinforcers are easily ignored or deleted, while positive ones are just as easily highlighted as far more significant than they actually are." Eventually, the individual creates multiple online ve
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| - Noted psychiatrist Sigmundheimer F. Rhoid, in his recently-published study entitled The Information Highway to Information Hell, suggests that wikiphrenia may be closer to a form of inferiority complex than to pure schizophrenia. "Almost all wikiphrenics are male, or at least present themselves as males while online," says Rhoid. "For most males, lack of attention or support from parents leads directly to an internalized inflation of the superego in response, artificially bolstering low self-esteem and creating an extremely fragile ego-facade. Online activity encourages this trend, since negative reinforcers are easily ignored or deleted, while positive ones are just as easily highlighted as far more significant than they actually are." Eventually, the individual creates multiple online versions of himself, each of which is further removed from reality than the previous one. And, as is the case with cloning, each new persona tends to also be less interesting, less talented, and more crap-obsessed than the one before it.
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