Same here i never left my room for 6 years now but i still have a job, i work from my room making custom printed brochures, and other adv templates ..i still keep it clean and orderly, i exercise, take baths, brush my teeth and have read almost 500 books so far and i'm NOT ANTI SOCIAL i go on webcam chat rooms all the time and have lots of friends on wow and rs. i to friends and families on the phone often, except my dad who fucking DROVE ME TO THIS, Yet i no much ppl have it worse
Should I change if I fullheartedly hate everyone around me, even my own family, and only find companionship in that which gives no verbal feedback? I don't know what to do, and i'm only 16...
I see all the time that I missed until now, I wonder how I could be different today ... And it seems that it helps me want to give up soon. What I am sure of is that unlike "Welcome to NHK" no cute girl will knock on my door wanting to help me smiling. Much less will I receive an email like this video.
I do not know what prevents me, why can not I? Maybe I've given up long ago.
I am still holding to a refuge idiot, I'm angry because I know I can change. But I'm afraid.
It's sad because the real victim here is the people around the person who shut himself/herself from outside world, who really care about them.. most of them are of course the parents.
10,000 years ago I'd be living in a cave up on a mountain and the only fucking time you bimbos would ever see me is when you needed a magic potion or spell.
The life of a recluse is basically about escape, from everthing that is scary and hard to deal with. But a lot of things will not go away by themselves, instead they come back stronger than before.
If it hadn´t been for my family more or less forcing me into therapy I would most likely have rotted away by now.
I believe one key thing is to have some sort of "meaning" to your existence and not just drone on feeling empty inside.
@Powadroid I find it hard to find meaning. because I believe things only have meaning if I make them have meaning which objectively means nothing is meaningful. it's just my brain thinking stuff to make me happy. Which isn't real. Just a bunch of chemicals.
I'm glad I'm from South America, where even the more reclusive person knows how to socialize with people. The Hikikomori problem is mainly a communication problem.
Most hikki live that way not because they afraid of society (but this is one of the reasons too, of course) but because they hate society, they are misanthropes.
People need to realize that there is a difference between Hikikomori and somebody who just doesn't like going out all the time. Most people who are 'shut-ins' can still talk with other people normally - not like hikikomori.
Hikikomori are people who literally never take a step out of their room or apartment for years. They cannot speak to other people and are unable to have any kind of social interaction what-so-ever. They NEVER EVER interact with other people and find themselves unable to.
Added-it's simply an outrage how quality of life is lied about-this is because economy depends on real estate slavery which bilks renters and creates real estate barons who own.
The upper class left here are utter snobs,not hikkomori by choice-if u aren't "on their side then u aren't worth talking to" they are all envionazi veggies(I'm a veggie enviromentalist as well)but if u aren't trendy-u suck for these ppl-whose wealth all comes from polluted cites- such a horrible place live-VT sucks
I'm a US Hikkiomori. Pc expert Till fractured in my spine that caused constant neck pain-ended up having to drop college.I live a rural stat- it has a 'high quality" of life-but-NO JOBS HERE! It has lowest % of people 18-35 in the entire 50- young that stay trustfunders b/c they can low wage & hi real estate.all peers left state ASAP,leaving out-of-staters b/c u have love VT 2 make economic sacrifice. If u dnt fit in with this crowd,aren't far left, and not rich-EXCLUDED,its rural 'billieberg
;( i just realized Im like this... i only go out if a friend asks me to, im planning on becoming an informatic engineer and my biggest dream has been to be able to work from home... with internet u can buy anything ud need... Id actually be happy... I would just need 1 person, 1 special person to share it with. but it seems the world has forgotten the word love
Wow. What a powerful short film that needed no words. The ending really made me nervous. It's shocking how under publicized this issue is. It's not just in Japan....
@heavyshine If you aren't happy, then get help. I know it's hard, but please, get help. I want you to think, what's even a few years of suffering for a better life? It will work out in time.
Damn I thought I was the only one like this, I'm white not japaneese though.Anyone say they plan on becoming a reclusive or a "Hikikomori" don't, it fucks up your mind and you start to lose touch with reality, trust me.
I used to be a complete like this, I didn't even shower for 6 months, I lived in a fort around my bed and my windows were blocked with news paper, then it came and went, for 5 years, always quite antisocial and scared to leave the house..
Now I am married and still having a really hard time fitting into society... Everyone just thinks I'm lazy. Theres always hope.
life is cruel man, im a black poeple in the realm of white people. they always mock me, but i always be strong and not shown weakness to them. later i found 2 friend who have same hobby with me, thats a GAME.. we discuss about game everyday. one year after i meet them... i got more more and more friend from my school. in the past, they always mock me, now they dont say a word again to me, and thanks to GAME, i graduate happily this year ^_^. thx game!
"Somebody does care"? lol yeah right. I was hoping for a realistic ending where he still didn't get any messages, not this nonsense. Otherwise I liked it.
@Deathinmusic I think it was more about hope. Lots of people do have someone who loves them, but it's just that they don't listen or shut them off. Or, in many cases, the family just doesn't want to do. They're afraid of hurting them, while really they're doing more harm than good. Plus, in many cultures, the parents just feel ashamed that their children don't leave their rooms or appear lazy.
@Deathinmusic For your information "New start" really exists, it's an organization helping hikikomori to find a way out, they're usually contacted by family or old friends :)
Lucky for them they have this NewStart group. It's definitely impossible to live life w/o a job, acquaintances, etc. How would they, the Hikikomori, can support themselves (food and financial) if their mothers died later on.
I've ready read recently some bits about NewStart. I'm going deeper.
Social anxiety is the problem. I guess different people can deal at different degrees with the coldness, non-human, non-chalant and violent (verbally/psychologically violent) big cities in which we live. Much love is missing in today's cities, and many lonely hearts walk down the streets looking for another heart. Now some of them chose to recluse themselves. The problem is society, it's not the persons themselves.
Well, cuz I hate my life and I want it to be better like everyone else, kids at school don't understand me I have some friends, and I always been alone in my whole life.
It's not that great. I've had 0 friends my entire life and I get panic attacks just from seeing my mother, I will never recover from being a shut-in. You still have a chance, I don't.
you say you feel confused but everybody feels confused, everybody feels scared, you're not the only one who has been hated and rejected; but that's how life is; you learn to live in a society that never will be perfect, surrounded by people that doesn't really understand you; and still you can get to be really happy with them. The life of a hikikomori is very comfortable, I know, I've experienced it; but that's it and trust me it doesn't worth to give up on everything life has to offer for that
@friki092 yes, I've begun to understand my battles start within me, not with other people. thank you for taking the time to send me a positive message from the heart
@rmoo17 no I was a high school student back then and dropped out in my senior year, living under my parents, well I hope you get the idea. I may not look as bad as the one shown in this video but still I didn't wanna go outside, socialize with other people, afraid of being looked down on.
@Agamerfr0zed oh, i can sort of visualize. is it ok if i asked how you got through it? i guess you dont have to reply if you dont wanna talk about it.
I kind of think i match some of the traits in this video. I do have a job and i do go out and interact with people and i have had girlfriends, however there are periods where i am just sat in my house watching t.v., playing games and surfing the net.
I think , this rly no only Japanese or Asian problem . The whole world has this problem, but that otherwise are called symptoms , in other country and this big problem .
Really good short film. I like how it shows that even happy childhoods can lead to this disorder, its a shame really that more and more youths seem to be progressing this route. A know a couple people who are "shut ins" which would be the japanese equivalent to a "hikikomori" i think, and whenever i see them i make efforts to connect with them. I hate seeing generally good people with this condition, and try to give them every chance I can to connect with me.
@imonw Well don't change...it's really good that you actually care. Most people don't care, and a lot of people considering themselves as "caring" people but actually they're not. That's my case. So if you actually have the heart to care you're among the best people there is.
While I don't live in such an extreme condition, my mind state and lifestyle is DEFINITELY exactly like this video. But to be honest I'm not unhappy at all. I just don't like human company. It has always been like that since I was a child.
Hikikimoris! Now is the time to look within, because you are all beautiful people. You know it, it's just no one else does because you are afraid to show it to them.
As sad as this is...I have to tell you before I die what happened to me...my parents never accepted me...I was taught to hate myself...I was taught to hate others because they had a different color, a different nose, a different voice...
Hating things that were different. It is collectivism. it tried to steal my soul...it failed
Hikikimoris! Now is the time to look within, because you are all beautiful people. You know it, it's just no one else does because you are afraid to show it to them.
As sad as this is...I have to tell you before I die what happened to me...my parents never accepted me...I was taught to hate myself...I was taught to hate others because they had a different color, a different nose, a different voice...
Hating things that were different.it is collectivism.. it tried to steal my soul...it failed
Hikikimoris! Now is the time to look within, because you are all beautiful people. You know it, it's just no one else does because you are afraid to show it to them.
As sad as this is...I have to tell you before I die what happened to me...my parents never accepted me...I was taught to hate myself...I was taught to hate others because they had a different color, a different nose, a different voice...
Hating things that were different. it is collectivism. it tried to steal my soul...it failed
Somehow I've managed to become pretty close to this living in a college dorm...which you would think would be pretty difficult to do but somehow I managed to pull it off. FML.
The only "disorder" we have, is being severely neglected, ostracized, and misled by a dying society and even our own families because we refuse to or can not fit their bullshit mold of perfection.
We feel so confused about how to proceed towards living a more rewarding life, because we have been systematically taught to hate ourselves for our failure at becoming another unimaginative, xenophobic, dehumanizing, collectivist drone.
Our greatest adversary, is no farther than the closest mirror
@Quickslash you know I actually thought like that once, "the society where I live is a pile of crap, people are annoying and nobody understands me so I don't give a damn about them" but that's wrong. When you're alone all the time you think that you're different from the others because you feel nobody understands you. Guess what. YOU'RE NOT. you have the same feelings, your brain works the same way and you're just one of the drove, it's just that you don't want to accept it. Continues....
i am not exactly a hikkikomori, i have good friends and i'm good threating with ppl, but i dont know what exactly happens, i dont want to go out of my room.
I'm not sad at all, but i feel like everything i do is wrothless, usually i dont give a fuck about what i do.
Ppl sux, i know that there, out of my window are ppl who could be good friends of mine.
I dont know what's happening to me, having relations with someone, its too easy for me, but TOO BORING, and i'm closing in my room, i'm 18
@ddante666 and there are ppl who loves me, but i dont want anything, and seeing ppl who they care about me getting hurt from my part...it's really killing me
@Raziel2170 I feel the same way u_u my family think i m not going out because im lazy but they have no clue how many things i wanna do but can't something is blocking me from doing stuff and i don't know what it is u_u
and he is French... I don't think that's specific to Japan, maybe the pressure at school, at work and ijiming are aggravating factors but the common of all developped countries.
Now I can't stand when I hear the door closing, sometimes I don't see himfor 48 hours, he lives in the night, cooks odorous things in the night ... but he has no mental problem apart that he is very very lazy and has no job (he even never tried to find a job after it got its graduate diploma!)
My brother is not exactly an hikikomori but could become one. He barely go out of his room, only to use the oven for pizzas or outside to buy food, he never watch TV in the living room (he stopped watching TV years ago), he just stay in his room reading mangas he download on sacn-trad sites and japanime on fan-sub sites, he alternate with video games on Wii (20+ games) and DS (infinite games thinks to you know what)...
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hikikomori people disgusting, they unsociable beings with the brain damaged by the fucking computer ... Better go out and get some air and make friends .. whores fucking sick! Sons of bitches!
Cette vidéo est tellement vraie! Le pire c la maman qui souffre également! Je suis passée par une phase similaire. c du passé mais cette vidéo m'a touché.... Courage à tous ceux dans le cas du personnage de cette vidéo!
@rahxun Honestly I don't believe you. Everyone says that same think, but nobody does it. Sad, but true. Nobody want to have a friend, who is a loser and nolife and ugly.
@defmanz Enjoy it thats the key. Fuck what anyone else tells you. Learn how to take guilt free pleasure from your life no matter how small it is stop listening all the people who tell you that you owe them something. Fuck them. The only thing is if you're living with people you hate you must leave that place and go somewhere else.
@psdawid Programming yourself to self-destruct because you dont fit societies ideals at the moment doesnt resolve problems either. Sometimes you have to be a renegade and walk alone for a time in your life to heal.
simply out of curiosity and for those of you who are in similar situations, which I would say I find myself in, would you reply and get help if a letter like that was sent to you? At first, I told myself, of course I would, out of the reason that I thought I still had some hope of getting better. But reality settled in and when I was about to go to a psychiatrist for some help, I chickened and backed out. and now I am here. if any of you feel comfortable replying, it'd be greatly appreciated.
Yes. but don't make them break you down and build back up into something your not comfortable with. Just be yourself and if they allow you to meet other Hikikomoris and you befriend them, then you all as friends who understand each other must help each other in times of need. don't let them cause you to Spiral outta control.....
No, I guess I wouldn't. I'm thinking about going to a psychiatrist since a few years, but somehow I was scared too much every time I thought about it. Too many fears are associated with that. I'll make a "fresh start" in another city soon. Guess my fears won't dissapear, maybe they will even grow, but it's all better than doing nothing. Try to do your own therapy. Do something different from what you're doing every day. Even if there is not much hope.
Any metal illness, including agoraphobia, and social anxiety isn't a problem exclusive to Japan. Japan is however the only country I know of that has a volunteer support group called, New Start. Even if you don't live in Japan there is help for you. There are therapists who specialize with anxiety issues and visit patient households for sessions. But it's up to you to take the initiative ask for help.
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hikikomori seriously disgust me, who would have the gall to do that to their parents? Hikikomori are parasitic, and contribute absolutely nothing. They could be what ruins Japan. They are people who were to weak too survive, but todays world nurtures the weak, dragging everyoen else down.This does not happen in america. This is why in hentai weak nerds always get the girls. Because it won't happen in real life. Japanese men are weak and passive. They live vicariously through everything.
It's kind of sad though. I do my best to have a life and I get along fine with the few friends I have and try to balance a school life and an online life,but sometimes I'm really scared I'll end up like this. I don't want this to be me...
esiste davvero qualcuno che vive sempre al buio e non ha contatti sociali neppure coi proprio famigliari al punto da farsi portare da mangiare fuori dalla sua porta?
Ah watching a video like this just makes me more depressed.. I haven't left my house in 2 years since I graduated... no friends.. nothing...
Rtyzd09 3 days ago
@Rtyzd09 Stinks man
ziljin 2 days ago
@Rtyzd09 Stinks man
ziljin 2 days ago
anime comics internet & PS2 is my best friends
MadokaCatty 4 days ago
i'm hikkikomori too
MadokaCatty 4 days ago
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Same here i never left my room for 6 years now but i still have a job, i work from my room making custom printed brochures, and other adv templates ..i still keep it clean and orderly, i exercise, take baths, brush my teeth and have read almost 500 books so far and i'm NOT ANTI SOCIAL i go on webcam chat rooms all the time and have lots of friends on wow and rs. i to friends and families on the phone often, except my dad who fucking DROVE ME TO THIS, Yet i no much ppl have it worse
xuphoriaa 6 days ago
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xuphoriaa 6 days ago
More importantly, HOW could I change?
Cflores008 2 weeks ago
Should I change if I fullheartedly hate everyone around me, even my own family, and only find companionship in that which gives no verbal feedback? I don't know what to do, and i'm only 16...
Cflores008 2 weeks ago
@Cflores008 If you want anyone to reply you should tell something else. How can I suggest what should you do if I dont know what are you doing?
dawkot1 1 week ago
@dawkot1 I honestly don't care anymore.
Cflores008 6 days ago
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You need to go out there, leave your comfort zone.
This is the only way to beat this illness.
sebaswildboy 2 weeks ago
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sebaswildboy 2 weeks ago
what is this beautiful music at the beginning
omgadivine 3 weeks ago
if you want to help people with hikikomori.. these are the choses
1, don't feed them. for sure thier ganna starve and seek food
2, burn the house, so that he or she will come out.. and will live in the street were there are people.. so she or he can be sociable,, nice... ryt?
3, give him or her a reason to live.. for christ sake's what those the family do!!
tinalovesyou24 3 weeks ago
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bbhaver 4 weeks ago
5year . . . . .. 2007,,,, i am tired my life
heavyshine 1 month ago
@heavyshine 5 years for me too.
bbhaver 4 weeks ago
I see all the time that I missed until now, I wonder how I could be different today ... And it seems that it helps me want to give up soon. What I am sure of is that unlike "Welcome to NHK" no cute girl will knock on my door wanting to help me smiling. Much less will I receive an email like this video.
I do not know what prevents me, why can not I? Maybe I've given up long ago.
I am still holding to a refuge idiot, I'm angry because I know I can change. But I'm afraid.
bruxBR 1 month ago
Just like me, except I don't live in Japan...
tontsa911 1 month ago 7
DELETE
Th0usandMaster 1 month ago
It's sad because the real victim here is the people around the person who shut himself/herself from outside world, who really care about them.. most of them are of course the parents.
citato 1 month ago
@citato you can not understand my suffering.
As if it were so easy I just choose
bruxBR 1 month ago
it sucks that this story is happening more and more, and not just in japan, but in the US and every other country too
torpidCerulean 1 month ago
Just another brick in the wall
metaflux2 2 months ago
Dude if you hate your lifestyle so much, run around in public with your dork hanging out, worked for me :)
idm0nkey2pt0 2 months ago
벗어나고 싶어...
미안해 엄마.
하지만 나는...
아무도 없어.
내 마음은 텅 비었거든.....
heavyshine 2 months ago
10,000 years ago I'd be living in a cave up on a mountain and the only fucking time you bimbos would ever see me is when you needed a magic potion or spell.
neognosis2012 2 months ago 3
The life of a recluse is basically about escape, from everthing that is scary and hard to deal with. But a lot of things will not go away by themselves, instead they come back stronger than before.
If it hadn´t been for my family more or less forcing me into therapy I would most likely have rotted away by now.
I believe one key thing is to have some sort of "meaning" to your existence and not just drone on feeling empty inside.
Powadroid 2 months ago
@Powadroid I find it hard to find meaning. because I believe things only have meaning if I make them have meaning which objectively means nothing is meaningful. it's just my brain thinking stuff to make me happy. Which isn't real. Just a bunch of chemicals.
ziljin 2 months ago 4
I'm glad I'm from South America, where even the more reclusive person knows how to socialize with people. The Hikikomori problem is mainly a communication problem.
neochris2 2 months ago
Most hikki live that way not because they afraid of society (but this is one of the reasons too, of course) but because they hate society, they are misanthropes.
zMYSTz 2 months ago
I would stop giving them food. That would eventually make them come out.
FacelessOnlooker 3 months ago
This breaks my heart :(
xxAlcibiadesxx 3 months ago
People need to realize that there is a difference between Hikikomori and somebody who just doesn't like going out all the time. Most people who are 'shut-ins' can still talk with other people normally - not like hikikomori.
Hikikomori are people who literally never take a step out of their room or apartment for years. They cannot speak to other people and are unable to have any kind of social interaction what-so-ever. They NEVER EVER interact with other people and find themselves unable to.
TheWeirdoClub 3 months ago 2
I can see nobi nobita from doraemon being a hikikomori
captainkunty 4 months ago
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yoshi167943 4 months ago
Do not imprison yourself you weak person.
PoopFRTV 4 months ago
i think its called get out and exercise
spikespeigel 4 months ago
My shrink told me I am suffering from this syndrome. It is too sad and scary to find out.
sambhav846 5 months ago
Added-it's simply an outrage how quality of life is lied about-this is because economy depends on real estate slavery which bilks renters and creates real estate barons who own.
The upper class left here are utter snobs,not hikkomori by choice-if u aren't "on their side then u aren't worth talking to" they are all envionazi veggies(I'm a veggie enviromentalist as well)but if u aren't trendy-u suck for these ppl-whose wealth all comes from polluted cites- such a horrible place live-VT sucks
CharlieALabtech 5 months ago
I'm a US Hikkiomori. Pc expert Till fractured in my spine that caused constant neck pain-ended up having to drop college.I live a rural stat- it has a 'high quality" of life-but-NO JOBS HERE! It has lowest % of people 18-35 in the entire 50- young that stay trustfunders b/c they can low wage & hi real estate.all peers left state ASAP,leaving out-of-staters b/c u have love VT 2 make economic sacrifice. If u dnt fit in with this crowd,aren't far left, and not rich-EXCLUDED,its rural 'billieberg
CharlieALabtech 5 months ago
;( i just realized Im like this... i only go out if a friend asks me to, im planning on becoming an informatic engineer and my biggest dream has been to be able to work from home... with internet u can buy anything ud need... Id actually be happy... I would just need 1 person, 1 special person to share it with. but it seems the world has forgotten the word love
SergioSource 5 months ago
me
heavyshine 5 months ago
; _ ;
PedroFavMusic 5 months ago
Wow. What a powerful short film that needed no words. The ending really made me nervous. It's shocking how under publicized this issue is. It's not just in Japan....
spartan159 5 months ago
again. i think i can't never save myself. i am so weak. boring. boring. boring.....
heavyshine 6 months ago
@heavyshine If you aren't happy, then get help. I know it's hard, but please, get help. I want you to think, what's even a few years of suffering for a better life? It will work out in time.
Rosebunse 5 months ago
Damn I thought I was the only one like this, I'm white not japaneese though.Anyone say they plan on becoming a reclusive or a "Hikikomori" don't, it fucks up your mind and you start to lose touch with reality, trust me.
mando267 6 months ago 2
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i have alot of hiki friends on the net they are the only people i can get on with
xallyouleavebehindx 6 months ago
I used to be a complete like this, I didn't even shower for 6 months, I lived in a fort around my bed and my windows were blocked with news paper, then it came and went, for 5 years, always quite antisocial and scared to leave the house..
Now I am married and still having a really hard time fitting into society... Everyone just thinks I'm lazy. Theres always hope.
AnemoneRex 6 months ago 28
@AnemoneRex How did you do it bro?
ziljin 2 weeks ago
I wrote a song about this condition and recorded it. I lived this way many times in my life, enjoy.
ChrisCartaya 6 months ago
life is cruel man, im a black poeple in the realm of white people. they always mock me, but i always be strong and not shown weakness to them. later i found 2 friend who have same hobby with me, thats a GAME.. we discuss about game everyday. one year after i meet them... i got more more and more friend from my school. in the past, they always mock me, now they dont say a word again to me, and thanks to GAME, i graduate happily this year ^_^. thx game!
NinjaStarForceX 7 months ago
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@NinjaStarForceX you're an idiot. go back to africa if you want to be with black people.
superf0b 6 months ago
"Somebody does care"? lol yeah right. I was hoping for a realistic ending where he still didn't get any messages, not this nonsense. Otherwise I liked it.
Deathinmusic 7 months ago 29
@Deathinmusic I think it was more about hope. Lots of people do have someone who loves them, but it's just that they don't listen or shut them off. Or, in many cases, the family just doesn't want to do. They're afraid of hurting them, while really they're doing more harm than good. Plus, in many cultures, the parents just feel ashamed that their children don't leave their rooms or appear lazy.
Rosebunse 5 months ago
@Deathinmusic For your information "New start" really exists, it's an organization helping hikikomori to find a way out, they're usually contacted by family or old friends :)
Nicowblast 2 months ago
@Deathinmusic The purpose of this animation is to give hope. I have no idea why people like you prefer sad stories...
SirMark89 1 week ago
Lucky for them they have this NewStart group. It's definitely impossible to live life w/o a job, acquaintances, etc. How would they, the Hikikomori, can support themselves (food and financial) if their mothers died later on.
I've ready read recently some bits about NewStart. I'm going deeper.
KhinShaider 7 months ago
@KhinShaider Keep us updated.
dreamingWisdom 7 months ago
This is a good video.....nice job on capturing what a Hikikomori is.
CONKER17 7 months ago
And if nobody cares?
nantonak0u 7 months ago 4
Meh, seems like they just play mmorpg's for 10-15 hours a day. Don't think they give a crap about e-mail much...
zellmer 7 months ago
me too. i have been alone since forever, its not cool.
catastrophyful 7 months ago
Social anxiety is the problem. I guess different people can deal at different degrees with the coldness, non-human, non-chalant and violent (verbally/psychologically violent) big cities in which we live. Much love is missing in today's cities, and many lonely hearts walk down the streets looking for another heart. Now some of them chose to recluse themselves. The problem is society, it's not the persons themselves.
WorldOfSnakes 8 months ago 2
That's sad, I'm planning to become a Hikikomori when I'm having problems
CuteXiao93 8 months ago
@CuteXiao93
Why would you plan to become a Hikikomori?
LordBelial2223 7 months ago
@LordBelial2223
Well, cuz I hate my life and I want it to be better like everyone else, kids at school don't understand me I have some friends, and I always been alone in my whole life.
CuteXiao93 7 months ago
@CuteXiao93
It's not that great. I've had 0 friends my entire life and I get panic attacks just from seeing my mother, I will never recover from being a shut-in. You still have a chance, I don't.
LordBelial2223 7 months ago
you say you feel confused but everybody feels confused, everybody feels scared, you're not the only one who has been hated and rejected; but that's how life is; you learn to live in a society that never will be perfect, surrounded by people that doesn't really understand you; and still you can get to be really happy with them. The life of a hikikomori is very comfortable, I know, I've experienced it; but that's it and trust me it doesn't worth to give up on everything life has to offer for that
friki092 8 months ago
@friki092 yes, I've begun to understand my battles start within me, not with other people. thank you for taking the time to send me a positive message from the heart
Quickslash 8 months ago
@Quickslash
It was my pleasure man
friki092 8 months ago
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friki092 8 months ago
did he reply or delete!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?
Cyb3rPolic3 8 months ago
While looking this video , i just understand i am a kind of hikikomori , for years.
Beautiful video.
avxnce 8 months ago
Very well done little short.
basil81 8 months ago
I was a hikikomori for 8 months
Agamerfr0zed 9 months ago
@Agamerfr0zed how do you maintain being a hikikomori? don't you have to make money to have food and stuff?
rmoo17 8 months ago
@rmoo17 no I was a high school student back then and dropped out in my senior year, living under my parents, well I hope you get the idea. I may not look as bad as the one shown in this video but still I didn't wanna go outside, socialize with other people, afraid of being looked down on.
Agamerfr0zed 8 months ago
@Agamerfr0zed oh, i can sort of visualize. is it ok if i asked how you got through it? i guess you dont have to reply if you dont wanna talk about it.
rmoo17 8 months ago
I kind of think i match some of the traits in this video. I do have a job and i do go out and interact with people and i have had girlfriends, however there are periods where i am just sat in my house watching t.v., playing games and surfing the net.
evster320 9 months ago
Not exactly like him, but I enjoy this lifestyle. Though if I had a strong urge for human interactions then maybe it would suck. I don't though <:D
MrKoopa26 9 months ago
I think , this rly no only Japanese or Asian problem . The whole world has this problem, but that otherwise are called symptoms , in other country and this big problem .
LuckyChannelPL 9 months ago
Really good short film. I like how it shows that even happy childhoods can lead to this disorder, its a shame really that more and more youths seem to be progressing this route. A know a couple people who are "shut ins" which would be the japanese equivalent to a "hikikomori" i think, and whenever i see them i make efforts to connect with them. I hate seeing generally good people with this condition, and try to give them every chance I can to connect with me.
imonw 9 months ago
@imonw Well don't change...it's really good that you actually care. Most people don't care, and a lot of people considering themselves as "caring" people but actually they're not. That's my case. So if you actually have the heart to care you're among the best people there is.
WorldOfSnakes 8 months ago
Excellent short film
DanielBowden1975 9 months ago
well all i can say is WELCOME TO THE NHK
rockhoof 9 months ago 11
@rockhoof Lol,I need to watch that anime.
BirthdaySuicide 5 months ago
i'm still crying
EstuansInterius21 9 months ago
Wow, fascinating...
While I don't live in such an extreme condition, my mind state and lifestyle is DEFINITELY exactly like this video. But to be honest I'm not unhappy at all. I just don't like human company. It has always been like that since I was a child.
megatroll 10 months ago 12
@megatroll You, friend, are a schizoid, like me : ) And I honestly think nearly all of the hikikomoris.
MrBoogiePope 2 months ago
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Hikikimoris! Now is the time to look within, because you are all beautiful people. You know it, it's just no one else does because you are afraid to show it to them.
As sad as this is...I have to tell you before I die what happened to me...my parents never accepted me...I was taught to hate myself...I was taught to hate others because they had a different color, a different nose, a different voice...
Hating things that were different. It is collectivism. it tried to steal my soul...it failed
Quickslash 10 months ago
Hikikimoris! 今はすべて美しい人々であるので中見る時期である。 それらにそれを示して恐れているのでそれをのそれであるちょうど誰も知っている。
別の色を有したので…私が他を憎むように教えられたか…私が自分自身を憎むように教えられたか…私の親が決して私を受け入れなかったか私がどうなるか私が死ぬ前にこれが…私であると悲しい言わなければならない、別の鼻、別の声…
異なっている…事を憎んでそれは集産主義である…私の精神を盗むことを試みた…失敗した
Quickslash 10 months ago
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Hikikimoris! Now is the time to look within, because you are all beautiful people. You know it, it's just no one else does because you are afraid to show it to them.
As sad as this is...I have to tell you before I die what happened to me...my parents never accepted me...I was taught to hate myself...I was taught to hate others because they had a different color, a different nose, a different voice...
Hating things that were different.it is collectivism.. it tried to steal my soul...it failed
Quickslash 10 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Hikikimoris! Now is the time to look within, because you are all beautiful people. You know it, it's just no one else does because you are afraid to show it to them.
As sad as this is...I have to tell you before I die what happened to me...my parents never accepted me...I was taught to hate myself...I was taught to hate others because they had a different color, a different nose, a different voice...
Hating things that were different. it is collectivism. it tried to steal my soul...it failed
Quickslash 10 months ago
Somehow I've managed to become pretty close to this living in a college dorm...which you would think would be pretty difficult to do but somehow I managed to pull it off. FML.
redbeanpaste2 10 months ago
私たちが持っている唯一の「障害」 厳しく放置されて、追放されて、私たちが拒否するので死にかけている社会と私たち自身の家族によってさえ惑わされている に あるいは 完全のそれらのでたらめ型に合うことができない。
より価値がある生活を送ることの方へどのように進むべきかについて私たちがとても混乱していると感じる 私たちが計画的にもう1つになることの失敗のために自分たちが大嫌いであるように警告されたので 想像力に欠けている 外国嫌いであること、人間性を奪うこと、集産主義の飛行音。
私たちの最も素晴らしい敵は最も緊密な鏡より遠くありません
Quickslash 10 months ago
The only "disorder" we have, is being severely neglected, ostracized, and misled by a dying society and even our own families because we refuse to or can not fit their bullshit mold of perfection.
We feel so confused about how to proceed towards living a more rewarding life, because we have been systematically taught to hate ourselves for our failure at becoming another unimaginative, xenophobic, dehumanizing, collectivist drone.
Our greatest adversary, is no farther than the closest mirror
Quickslash 10 months ago 17
@Quickslash you know I actually thought like that once, "the society where I live is a pile of crap, people are annoying and nobody understands me so I don't give a damn about them" but that's wrong. When you're alone all the time you think that you're different from the others because you feel nobody understands you. Guess what. YOU'RE NOT. you have the same feelings, your brain works the same way and you're just one of the drove, it's just that you don't want to accept it. Continues....
friki092 8 months ago
If your a hiki look up social anxiety. You most definitely have it and can overcome it.
silversobe 10 months ago
THE WAYSEER MANIFESTO
blueskyrider15 10 months ago
i am russian hikikomori :(
czolgi100 10 months ago
@czolgi100 i am korean hikikomori :(
heavyshine 10 months ago
@heavyshine i am irish hikikomori :(
shakin2009 10 months ago
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MrSalmon88 10 months ago
GOOGLE/SEARCH FOR: SCHIZOID PERSONALITY DISORDER
mauriliobragafc 10 months ago
i am not exactly a hikkikomori, i have good friends and i'm good threating with ppl, but i dont know what exactly happens, i dont want to go out of my room.
I'm not sad at all, but i feel like everything i do is wrothless, usually i dont give a fuck about what i do.
Ppl sux, i know that there, out of my window are ppl who could be good friends of mine.
I dont know what's happening to me, having relations with someone, its too easy for me, but TOO BORING, and i'm closing in my room, i'm 18
ddante666 10 months ago
@ddante666 and there are ppl who loves me, but i dont want anything, and seeing ppl who they care about me getting hurt from my part...it's really killing me
ddante666 10 months ago
Since 5 years, my life is a true nightmare... alone, always sad... i hate myself, i hate this life.
Raziel2170 11 months ago 75
@Raziel2170 same for me. No girl, no love
LatestUFOSightings 8 months ago
@Raziel2170 Visit 4chan.org.
yannbane 7 months ago
@Raziel2170 I feel the same way u_u my family think i m not going out because im lazy but they have no clue how many things i wanna do but can't something is blocking me from doing stuff and i don't know what it is u_u
ElectricaIsMe 6 months ago
@Raziel2170 weakling is all i can tell you.
adnmoh1 5 months ago
@Raziel2170 i hug you. iam like this too, ... life doesn't matter, just don't be sad
cigiss 4 months ago
like is so painful and scared
eunnaeul 11 months ago
and he is French... I don't think that's specific to Japan, maybe the pressure at school, at work and ijiming are aggravating factors but the common of all developped countries.
LoupSolitaire 11 months ago
Now I can't stand when I hear the door closing, sometimes I don't see himfor 48 hours, he lives in the night, cooks odorous things in the night ... but he has no mental problem apart that he is very very lazy and has no job (he even never tried to find a job after it got its graduate diploma!)
LoupSolitaire 11 months ago
My brother is not exactly an hikikomori but could become one. He barely go out of his room, only to use the oven for pizzas or outside to buy food, he never watch TV in the living room (he stopped watching TV years ago), he just stay in his room reading mangas he download on sacn-trad sites and japanime on fan-sub sites, he alternate with video games on Wii (20+ games) and DS (infinite games thinks to you know what)...
LoupSolitaire 11 months ago
@LoupSolitaire Me too~ I love my computers, I can't life without my PC~ With the computer, U can get anything!!!
sazuist 11 months ago
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hikikomori people disgusting, they unsociable beings with the brain damaged by the fucking computer ... Better go out and get some air and make friends .. whores fucking sick! Sons of bitches!
Chumynipal87 11 months ago
i am 60% hikikomori and even myself know how to disable those annoying windows sounds lol
sillyem0lov3 11 months ago 33
ugly
vloweer 11 months ago
i was expecting him to start working on Touhou: Fairy Wars at the end of the video
cheeseofglass 11 months ago
i am 90% hikikomori and i am not japans
Darbaz09 11 months ago
sounds like a personal problem
UwatchinQ 11 months ago
its society not me that is bad.So I want to change society.
mokyAAA 1 year ago 7
Japanese work environment is very hard.
I cant keep pace with that.
My parents and society are sometimes laughing at me in their heart and
sometimes not interested in me.
They leave me neither alive nor dead.
mokyAAA 1 year ago 2
I am japanese and hikikomori in 17 years.
no one help me. i am hopeless
mokyAAA 1 year ago
@mokyAAA Me too~ :(
sazuist 11 months ago
good art! ^^
sparklingphantom 1 year ago
There is nothing wrong with him.
It is called an EVOLUTION.
We became one with machines.
FINALLY.
2933034 1 year ago
I barely leave my room too and i have been leeching from my mother.
ItachiGT 1 year ago
Doesn't look fun dah
Sentum1994 1 year ago
There are 2 kinds of comments here:
Nr1 "I am like him exept of ..."
Nr2 Hikkikomori related things
270Akio270 1 year ago
Cette vidéo est tellement vraie! Le pire c la maman qui souffre également! Je suis passée par une phase similaire. c du passé mais cette vidéo m'a touché.... Courage à tous ceux dans le cas du personnage de cette vidéo!
minimimiscule 1 year ago
What the HeLL! we are = SAME! But i play Fallout not raiden III
irreashable 1 year ago
아. 죽고싶다.
eunnaeul 1 year ago 2
the differences between me and him is...
-im not japanese
-im an Otaku
-I NEVER EVER CARES ABOUT DELETING MSG FROM INBOX LOL
Harima1994 1 year ago
became a hikikomori since my parents died..
obitokarb93 1 year ago
so sad. it makes me want to say hi to the introvert people I know. I want to befriend them with my most sincere heart.
rahxun 1 year ago
@rahxun Honestly I don't believe you. Everyone says that same think, but nobody does it. Sad, but true. Nobody want to have a friend, who is a loser and nolife and ugly.
psdawid 11 months ago
@psdawid oh, sorry, I wanted to click the reply button but my hand slipped. it's an honest mistake, sorry.
well, I guess I can only say thank you for sharing your opinion. you don't have to believe me, though.
rahxun 11 months ago
im a Hikikomori
KumoKojiki 1 year ago 5
I went to new-start-jp out of curiosity...and I didnt expect it to be a real website! Nice!
12oClockTea 1 year ago
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defmanz 1 year ago
@defmanz Enjoy it thats the key. Fuck what anyone else tells you. Learn how to take guilt free pleasure from your life no matter how small it is stop listening all the people who tell you that you owe them something. Fuck them. The only thing is if you're living with people you hate you must leave that place and go somewhere else.
Silvertrine 1 year ago 6
@Silvertrine Running away from problems doesn't resolve them.
psdawid 1 year ago
@psdawid Programming yourself to self-destruct because you dont fit societies ideals at the moment doesnt resolve problems either. Sometimes you have to be a renegade and walk alone for a time in your life to heal.
Silvertrine 1 year ago
@defmanz work or continue re take studies or if you can both...
KIOKOM2s 1 year ago
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AokigaharaJisatsu 1 year ago
simply out of curiosity and for those of you who are in similar situations, which I would say I find myself in, would you reply and get help if a letter like that was sent to you? At first, I told myself, of course I would, out of the reason that I thought I still had some hope of getting better. But reality settled in and when I was about to go to a psychiatrist for some help, I chickened and backed out. and now I am here. if any of you feel comfortable replying, it'd be greatly appreciated.
AokigaharaJisatsu 1 year ago
@AokigaharaJisatsu
I don't think I would reply
5tivi 1 year ago
@AokigaharaJisatsu
Yes. but don't make them break you down and build back up into something your not comfortable with. Just be yourself and if they allow you to meet other Hikikomoris and you befriend them, then you all as friends who understand each other must help each other in times of need. don't let them cause you to Spiral outta control.....
1Bullet2Ki11s 1 year ago
@AokigaharaJisatsu
No, I guess I wouldn't. I'm thinking about going to a psychiatrist since a few years, but somehow I was scared too much every time I thought about it. Too many fears are associated with that. I'll make a "fresh start" in another city soon. Guess my fears won't dissapear, maybe they will even grow, but it's all better than doing nothing. Try to do your own therapy. Do something different from what you're doing every day. Even if there is not much hope.
gatsu12345 1 year ago
@gatsu12345 A sincere best of luck to you, may you find what you are searching for. Please keep me posted. And thank you.
AokigaharaJisatsu 1 year ago
aw <3
SheWumbo 1 year ago
maybe the reason he stays inside his because of his disgustingly shaped cone-head???
skritzo 1 year ago
I have a song I called "Hikikomori" too.
JohnnyPlaysRock 1 year ago
whoa, great animation dude!!! Like the style... You made it?
Juggernaughty824 1 year ago
Any metal illness, including agoraphobia, and social anxiety isn't a problem exclusive to Japan. Japan is however the only country I know of that has a volunteer support group called, New Start. Even if you don't live in Japan there is help for you. There are therapists who specialize with anxiety issues and visit patient households for sessions. But it's up to you to take the initiative ask for help.
Tycho742 1 year ago
His moustache matches perfectly the moustache of every social recluse I have ever met lol
lukefromdownunder 1 year ago
@lukefromdownunder And so it should, it's based on my own whenever it starts to sprout.
Crohbar 1 year ago
@Crohbar lol yeah if i don't shave for a week or so that's what I get.
lukefromdownunder 1 year ago
Listen to my song Hikikomori. On my videos.
JohnnyDeadSpace 1 year ago
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hikikomori seriously disgust me, who would have the gall to do that to their parents? Hikikomori are parasitic, and contribute absolutely nothing. They could be what ruins Japan. They are people who were to weak too survive, but todays world nurtures the weak, dragging everyoen else down.This does not happen in america. This is why in hentai weak nerds always get the girls. Because it won't happen in real life. Japanese men are weak and passive. They live vicariously through everything.
swantonist 1 year ago
@swantonist Because you hate them more,the more they live in self denial...they are just afraid of being scolded and embarrassed...
gohpenghng 1 year ago 2
@swantonist
Yeah, because only Japanese people deal with social anxiety disorder.
Fuck, I hate Americans.
Ninox37 1 year ago
ebinhoo, dont tuub awayy! xD
Conflicti 1 year ago
It's kind of sad though. I do my best to have a life and I get along fine with the few friends I have and try to balance a school life and an online life,but sometimes I'm really scared I'll end up like this. I don't want this to be me...
BobTheWaitress 1 year ago
A Klayman figure? Yay!
crackakillah 1 year ago
esiste davvero qualcuno che vive sempre al buio e non ha contatti sociali neppure coi proprio famigliari al punto da farsi portare da mangiare fuori dalla sua porta?
Qoldos 1 year ago
@Qoldos A quanto pare sì. Ci sono diversi casi documentati anche in Italia. Se cerchi Hikikomori su google trovi tutto.
BacarozzoPazzo 1 year ago
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dslopez13 1 year ago
People don't care because they don' t understand.
vulyus 1 year ago 6
@vulyus Yeah~ Totally right! :(
sazuist 1 year ago
its my life
Raziel2170 1 year ago 6