Hikikomori: Japan's Modern Day Hermits

People are confusing, so i choose to live alone..

this is my life...

You gotta come back just found these videos but they are all underrated as hell

Hope u return one day

I think not only in Japan...i mean I'm also lil bit of hekikamori... but thanks to my parents they always force me to go in public and my religion islam that have a thing to invite and visit

america too

thank you for this greatmade and interesting view

This isn’t just a Japan problem. We might have the opposite ideology as we seen to value individuality and independence, but we still cause the same reclusion of people who can’t live up to these societal standards. We have hikikimori too, we just don’t notice.

Sou um hikikomori a cerca de 10 anos

How does one live in their house alone, for a decade? Internet, ramen noodles and sleep.

There was a great short film by Bong Joon Ho in “Tokyo” on a life of a hikikomori.

Hikikomori = Japanese Autism

Welcome to the NHK is the best anime about a hikikomori. I relate to that anime so much, I absolutely love it.

are you going to continue to make content? Love your videos, hope to see another video soon :D

can you really blame them for now wanting anything to do with modern society

found this video again...
long time no video.
hope whatever you're doing rn you're doing good.

This is happening to me right now , I lost my job I feel like with drawing from society I am becoming hikkikumori

Our biology has not evolved at the rate our environment has. In fact we are becoming so maladapted to the environment we insist on creating for ourselves, that the majority of people need therapy and medication just to tolerate the conditions. These people are unable to tolerate an adult day care centre that denies so many human needs. It's also apparent that the treatment to address this psychological distress in the populous is ineffective. The standard approach to treating this is to simply push the clients into a state where they are far more aligned with the system that caused them to be sick in the first place. Rates of success with this treatment depend on how impressionable the client is. If a client's analysis of his own experiences go beyond a filtering process of asking himself whether his thoughts or beliefs are correct by the standard of the system, then he will simply be untreatable. They're not sick, they're actually often sane. Industrialised society causes us immense psychological harm, these people give up on it

Even though I don't live in Japan this issue effects me as well!

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Man, this is sad. They want to socialize but they cannot, neurologically. Their brains won't let them. So it is like they are trapped in their bodies.

This is a phenom that might keep traveling around the world. I suspect Japan went into this phenom earlier and deeper as their culture is sort of made to tolerate and accept it and they experienced peculiar demographics and economic timing. In China a parallel 'laying flat' kind of subculture developed and I've also seen this occurring in parts of SE Asia and interestingly more often among girls and women.
Where you're less likely to hear about this can be Vietnam and Thailand which are 2 East Asian nations with 1) newly booming economies 2) still in modernization and newly developing nations 3) growing populations.
I don't think Vietnamese or Thais have this as a 'thing' that would have a 'name' nor, as best I can tell, Mexicans wouldn't have this as a 'thing' with a name as a known 'social phenom' in their world. So there is that.

I am hokkimori from 5 years

I don't know what to do

I love japanese food so i like to kidnap chefs. Thank you in advance for all the dumplings. And sorry for kidnapping your best and most skilled chefs.

This is my fear

Is very very very sad but must be like that

Me doing the Omori hikkikomori route rn: 0-0

Just wanted to expand on something that's a little wrong - being Hikikomori IS more complex than Agoraphobia, but agorophobia is not "simply a fear of public spaces".
It's not some weird little fear some people have, like being scared of a spider being in your bathroom.
It's an anxiety or panic disorder of being trapped somewhere unsafe where something bad will happen and you cannot get help or take care of yourself.

Imagine having a painful and sudden digestive disability, but you're caught in traffic, or walking in the city, and don't know where the nearest toilet is. The pain inside your body gets worse and worse every second until you can't walk or drive safely - and this can happen weekly or even daily.

Imagine being abused by a group of people while on public transport - they've already made you miss your stop, you don't know where you are going and nobody is bothering to help you.

Imagine your shitty parent kicks you out of the car in the middle of a boiling summer, so you have to walk home in the afternoon heat - and when you get home all the doors and windows are locked so you can't get in, leaving you out in the dark with the summer bugs eating your sweat.

Any of these situations will make you "scared of public spaces". They make you too anxious to leave the house, leave your safe space.
When people hear of Agoraphobia they think "ha, how weird, are they scared of big rooms or something? Like people who are scared of clowns?"
It's more like trauma. Enough shitty things have happened to me when I am out and unable to properly care for myself that I'd rather be at home, even sitting in the car feels like being latched into a rollercoaster.
I miss traveling.

Hikikomori are basically just all incels. 90+% of them are males. It's their own fault

I think they're extremely shy and sensitive.

They used movie footage from the animes "Your Name" & "Weathering With You"

Yeah, sometimes I also want to be a Hikikomori. I'm lazy to interact with people. I just want to live with my computer, my PlayStation, eat, drink, and shower. But if I stay in my room all the time, I won't be able to make money. Does anyone know how Hikikomori can make money?

In 2020 after loosing my job i decided to become a hikikomori and shut in for over 3 years

It's been Seven months i've not stepped outside my home! I do light exercise, sit under sun on terrace & take healthy diet but i had no social interaction with anybody other thn my parents in a long time.

The one who is sick is society, hikikomori are a symptom

I relate to this very much. I am lucky to have people who are understanding. I try to attend daily Mass because it is the one thing that gets me out of the house each day. But then I am often glued to the screen for the rest of the day. And when the anxiety gets really bad I start to miss daily Mass and then a week is gone before I know it. People say "can't you get a job" as if I were avoiding work on purpose. I am ashamed to be unemployed and have trouble explaining to people why I don't have a job. It is the constant rejection and feeling that I will get fired even if I get hired that keeps me from trying at times. The internet makes it easier to escape and not face my fears. It is like a cheap drug that I am addicted to. When I do finally go to a social situation, most of real interactions end up feeling boring because of being used to the fast pace of anime. I am in a self destructive way of life and don't know how to get out. I know that if I were starving then necessity would make me try harder. But I'm not starving and so that motivation slips away.

I AM A HIKIKOMORI FOR ALMOST 8 YEARS AND I ONLY GO TO WORK .. AND SHOPPING ONCE A YEAR 🙆🏻‍♀️📆🧘🏻‍♀️

Which anime at 1.38 and 2.03?

It’s happening in South Korea, South Africa, Canada, U.K, U.S, and Australia.


Even a country like France is suffering from this worldwide epidemic and their country has set up mobile apps to get people to socialize and setting up social programs for young men in the ages between (18-40) to leave their bedrooms and there is not much France’s doctors can do for these young boys and young men.


I feel bad for youth around the world. This society is declining and becoming more isolated.

Shunning

Overhelmed

Ready to lose all sympathy? Hikkamori = japanese in sell

you have a good voice, maybe you could do longer videos, people will find it soothing, your subs will go up, keep up the good work

I used to be HIKIKOMORI during the 80's when I was in my teens, Im now 57, I think i was jaded and fearful of the system, I did not fit in, SOLITUDE is a good thing, but ISOLATION is not wise and can lead to arrested development and maybe suicide

Mine started early at age 15 and only got worse after becoming permantelty disabled right before the pandemic hit and well I'm mostly in my whelechair all day trying to desperately find any therapist who'll take me but everyone keeps turning me away because I'm an extremely complex case due to life long abuse and trauma. Also, part of why I'm permanently disabled now and chronically ill. I have a full time live in IHSS caregiver aid, and I can't even handle walking outside in broad daylight and lost my ability to speak fully. So it's gonna be my 14th year in a row as a hikikomori

I have a middle age child suffering from this exact thing. Each of my many children are built differently emotionally. Each faced life trials and have their own copping skills and see the world in a different way. She is not only struggling with this, in todays cyber world, it is much easier to fall trap to a false sense of social interaction on line. Japanese culture seems to be a little less forgiving but in either country, the challenge to rejoin the main stream of public financial and social survival are just as real. For me, it was military boot camp that took hundreds of thousands of us through eight weeks of brainwashing that stripped away our patterns of identity and shaped our focus on a can do attitude. Maybe we need a kind of boot camp vocational program for this?

Japan is kinda fucked up

80+ old in Belgium sits the alle the days home and only go out to go after food

Hey everyone - just wanted to address those commenting who say they either relate or are currently experiencing the same problem as discussed in the video.

Firstly, thank you for being brave enough to comment in the first place. I sincerely hope you found some comfort in my video or in the comments.

You are not alone.
There is help out there, if you need it.

Contact Samaritans, TellJP or your local mental health charity organisation - these people will listen without judgement.

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