Oh look, another thing on the internet I am confused by. I had read the wiki page on the night this was posted but haven't really read a lot into it. According to wiki, this doesn't exist in low income families.
That's where I am torn. I agree social pressure has much to do with it, but in families without the income to support an adult child in the home - the men HAVE to deal with the world, there is no other choice. I don't know if this leads to suicide or being let to stay in isolation and uselessness leads to suicide. Anyone got those kind of stats? I might read more on it later if I am bored enough, but its likely to be another thing to drive me batty. The wiki page also said it was not a mental disorder, though they show signs of depression and anxiety, the current trend of anyone who spends time online. A family unit being disappointed in a child is not a new phenomenon, the generation of today seems far less able to deal with that sort of rejection, even outside of Japan.
If it is a disability, why is it not being dealt with like other disabilities? What happens to adult children with high needs disabilities? If this is classed as a disability should they not enter the disability care system like other adults with disabilities? Are they highly reactive to stimuli like Autism? Or are they faking their way through a system they don't understand, like retardation? If these sisters count as a treatment, then they should make at least as much as a psychiatrist does, they'll certainly clock up more hours than one. But would that tip the balance of their social structure with women making that much dosh?
If it is a lifestyle choice, why do the parents support it? They can enter a low pressure job and stay in it for life (that was my plan haha, until there were no actual jobs for physically disabled women in my area) especially with the availability of housing there. If they are all united together in a common non interest, why are there no group supports? Even online - or are there? Are they all supporting each other in isolated misery to never take any responsibility at all for themselves?
I gets jack of this cos I would love to get back to work, I find the pressures of unemployment MUCH harder to deal with than the pressures of work life. The limited income, the low social status, the boredom. Then disgust expressed by society towards those living on welfare and trying to enjoy it. It is way more difficult to deal with isolation and boredom than the parental pressure of getting a life. I have sympathy to a point, but then there is an element of well get over it or get out of it. I support voluntary euthanasia for those who find this world too much to deal with. Why continue the suffering of someone who has decided the world is to much? If suffering is what they are doing? Or do they have the choice to like it?
(this is a rant in my typical aussie tone - the questions are sincere but I am unsure how to provoke the actual answers to my questions rather than "well they are mentally ill so they shouldn't have to take responsibility" cos that isn't how it happens in the world I live in.)
Hikikomori?
As soon as they gave it a name, they made it trendy.
Agreed. We have already seen this over and over again in the world. Its leading to a new sort of self imposed suffering.
