Hikikomori General Thread

Hikikomori General Thread

This thread is for English speaking NEET shut-ins that fit the Japanese description of the word hikikomori

>Hikikomori

>Hikikomori is a Japanese term when translated into English it means pulling inward being confined (Acute social withdrawal) Hikikomori is a distinct social condition that refers to the phenomenon of reclusive adolescents and young adults who have withdrawn from society seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement due to various personal social cultural and psychological issues in their lives. (A shut-in who stays at home in their parents house does not work go to school or socialize with others and lives in isolation in their bedroom for 6 months or more)


>Contrary to popular belief most hikikomori go outdoors but are just isolated socially and still spend most of the day and nearly every single day confined at home in their rooms

>The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare defines hikikomori as a condition in which the affected individuals refuse to leave their parents house, do not work or go to school and isolate themselves away from society and their family in a single room for a period exceeding six months

>The Hikikomori Criteria and Diagnosis

>1. Subject spends most of the day confined at home, nearly every single day.

>2. Subject purposefully avoids social situations and social relationships

>3. Subject shows clear significant functional impairment,

>4. Subject shows social withdrawal symptoms for .a duration of 6 months or more

>5. Subject has no physical condition nor other severe psychological problem that is the cause of the social withdrawal (Mainly excluding those with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia)

>While hikikomori is mostly only a Japanese phenomenon cases of the condition have been found in other countries

People who work go to school or have a social life are not hikikomori

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bros i wanna learn a skill while im still relatively young

>bros i wanna learn a skill while im still relatively young

Like what?

i havent decided yet. have you thought about getting a job?

>have you thought about getting a job?

I have no skills no work in 8 years.

how do you survive? i get neetbux

can neets buy guns with neetbucks?

>how do you survive? i get neetbux

Neetbux and parents.

Yes, we can. I've been a NEET for 7 years on neetbux, thinking of picking up a gun soon.

Can I still be part of the club I was an absolute neet between age 18 to 24, went out of the home maybe once every 3 months and just played vidya 16hrs a day, dropped out of HS, now it's been 3 years I've been working but I want to quit and go back to the neet ways, still khv.

>, thinking of picking up a gun soon.

What does a hiki need a gun for? we dont leave our rooms.

>I've been working
what job?

Driving emergency ambulances, currently about to end the night shift.

I'd say I meet this description although I don't live with my parents as I'm not particularly close with either and prefer to have my freedom without having to deal with any bullshit. I currently don't get neetbux because I'm too proud and my countries system is fucked atm, but I'm thinking of going for it soon. I usually work for around 6 months at a time and save everything but the essentials and then inevitably quit my job when the pressure becomes too much and come a recluse for 8+ months or more. During this time I do not speak to anyone and waste my time doing nothing of worth, leaving the house every couple of weeks only to get food for myself, although recently I have been able to have my food delivered so I don't have to go outside and haven't done so in months . I have done this ever since I left school at 18 and I am turning 22 next month.

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>club

Its not really a club the description in the OP is the detailed description of the word.

>I'd say I meet this description although I don't live with my parents as I'm not particularly close with either and prefer to have my freedom without having to deal with any bullshit.

Who do you live with user?

>crippling social anxiety
>for years
>can't talk to anyone, didn't make a single friend while I was at school
>now out of school
>hikki for many months
>develop a phobia from phone calls
>develop a phobia from people which was only just a fear before
>be a 25 year old khhv female still
I qanna die

I live in a house with a roommate who also displays the same behaviours, he lives on the top floor which has a kitchen and bathroom. I haven't seen him in about a month although we do get along well, we just like to keep to ourselves.

That sounds more like agoraphobia rather than hikikomori it is important to point out that most if not all hikikomori do have mental health problems but it being a social condition doesn't mean that the individual doesn't show mental health problems but that they are not the cause that lead to the phenomenon itself.. what I mean is that hikikomori are not hikikomori because of depression, anxiety, etc but that these problems arise because of the social and cultural triggers related to society as a whole and because of the hikikomori lifestyle itself mental illness does play a role but what it all boils down to is triggers caused by society as a whole.

Sounds oddly cozy, that's great user.

>we just like to keep to ourselves.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori

>Reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from society and seek extreme degrees of isolation and confinement.

>Do not work or go to school and isolate themselves away from society and family in a single room for a period exceeding six months.

Being insecure depressed socially inept or just preferring to be alone doesn't make you a hikikomori, your situation may be bad but you have to descend way deeper in that rabbit hole to get there, and no, you don't want to. No one wants that crap.

thought you couldn't get one because of disability, does the government give you checks or something?

You can still get guns on disability, even for severe mental disorders like schizophrenia unless you're taken to court and the right is revoked.

>Sounds oddly cozy,

I agree.

>What does a hiki need a gun for?
Girls.

>No one wants that crap.
Hikkikimori people do.

>Girls

LOL they dont leave their rooms and dont communicate with anybody at all besides their parents when they need shit like food to eat.

Former NEET here.

Why aren't you guys getting jobs?

Do you secretly wish someone would just talk to you even if you're afraid of talking to them? That's what I always wanted. Someone who would just talk to me and not care about my awkwardness.

>Hikkikimori people do.

No they actually dont and if they do say that they are just coping Dr. Alan Teo has said hikikomoris core feature is social isolation and that the person must suffer for 6 months and be unhappy about the isolation.

will you be my girlfriend? i can help you get back on your feet if you want.

>Why aren't you guys getting jobs?

Because i cant.