A day with a Hikikomori.....(Short Version)

While total social withdrawal has been claimed to be mainly a Japanese phenomenon, there are reports of similar phenomena developing in South Korea, Taiwan and China.[citation needed] Moreover, clinically speaking, there is little difference between hikikomori and more formal clinical definition of people suffering from acute social withdrawal due to depression.

When a BBC program claiming that hikikomori was a Japanese phenomenon was aired in Britain, the BBC home page received numerous messages from viewers in the United Kingdom saying that they had personal experience with hikikomori and that it was hardly a phenomenon particular to Japan. Even the most casual search of anglophonic materials will show similar phenomenon may be found in the United States, Australia, Canada, Britain...
Sometimes referred to as a kind of social problem in Japanese discourse, the hikikomori phenomenon has a number of possible contributing factors. Young adults may feel overwhelmed by modern Japanese society, or be unable to fulfill their expected social roles as they have not yet formulated a sense of personal honne and tatemae - one's "true self" and one's "public facade" -- both of which are needed to cope with the daily paradoxes of adulthood.

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[caesiume]

I can't stand people who wish to be hikikomoris. You have no idea of the true scale of pain and loneliness that real hikikomoris have to live with on a daily basis, trapped in a mental/societal prison.

[luminolsound]

its a mental issue you idiot! try to have more compassion for human being conditions

[tbm25]

But hey... I never heard of people who shit on his own room man... Yeah, i do masturbate and keep using my notebook but, come on, theres porn everywhere on this damn thing.

I like the feeling of peeing inside botles of coke but I dont do that unless I have a good excuse :P

Well, and yeah, I assume I talk to myself a lot... maybe I look like that crazy guy, shouting to make my traumas vanishing from my head :P Kind of pos traumatic shit i guess...

But no,shit on the room no, this is fuked up!

[tbm25]

Cant blame the hikikomoris. This world suck so much. People out there rape, murder, betray. Everybody lies, everybody will fuck you if they have something to gain. Every women is a whore and the system is wrong, slaving people, forcing every to labor every day so someone gets rich... This shit is so fuked up.

Im kind of a hikikomori too, but I would love to exchange my room for a place in the woods, or in the mountains, or the snow, alone with the animals :D

[right2left2]

@eurekaseven4me you know theres no hope

[LulzBat]

I wish an 18 year old would come knocking to my door :(

[shadupp]

is that you, Sato?

[vicious7524]

i dont understand. just found out about this. i can relate partly tho, some of the vids made by peeps seem... like fucking bullshit. im a college drop out with no GF and job. i play WoW all day. and literaly no friends. shit sucks bro...

[IWantMyVisionBack]

I was quite a bit of a hikikomori over summer break.

[TheGNUfan]

@halocekicksass It's not about them feeling sorry for themselves. Most of these people are dealing with severe social anxiety and depression. Imagine the response you get from your greatest irrational fear. Now try to imagine that response to a majority of your social interactions, not just ending there but lingering for hours, days, months, or even years. Like tethering a tarantula to an arachnophobe.