KC . . . do you have any idea in the world what this poster is trying to say?
Posted on 07/08/2013 9:57:47 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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In Japan, hikikomori, a term that's also used to describe the young people who withdraw, is a word that everyone knows.
Tamaki Saito was a newly qualified psychiatrist when, in the early 1990s, he was struck by the number of parents who sought his help with children who had quit school and hidden themselves away for months and sometimes years at a time. These young people were often from middle-class families, they were almost always male, and the average age for their withdrawal was 15.
It might sound like straightforward teenage laziness. Why not stay in your room while your parents wait on you? But Saito says sufferers are paralysed by profound social fears.
"They are tormented in the mind," he says. "They want to go out in the world, they want to make friends or lovers, but they can't."
Symptoms vary between patients. For some, violent outbursts alternate with infantile behaviour such as pawing at the mother's body. Other patients might be obsessive, paranoid and depressed.
When Saito began his research, social withdrawal was not unknown, but it was treated by doctors as a symptom of other underlying problems rather than a pattern of behaviour requiring special treatment.
Since he drew attention to the phenomenon, it is thought the numbers of hikikomori have increased. A conservative estimate of the number of people now affected is 200,000, but a 2010 survey for the Japanese Cabinet Office came back with a much higher figure - 700,000. Since sufferers are by definition hidden away, Saito himself places the figure higher still, at around one million.
The average age of hikikomori also seems to have risen over the last two decades. Before it was 21 - now it is 32.
So why do they withdraw?
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
I imagine a lot young men think their lives are hell when, in fact, the real problem is their lives are too easy.
How common was it hundreds of years ago for so many males in the prime of life to be able to hide in their bedrooms with no fear that they would starve to death?
Only for the very wealthy and probably not even then.
These men are convinced they are useless.
Why?
A man needs 3 things to be happy:
1. Something to do.
2. Someone to love.
3. Something to look forward to.
These are the things that make a man feel useful.
I’m guessing a lot of young men are missing all three.
The best solution for most?
A boot up the ass.
Nothing cures depression like being forced to survive.
Heh, heh, heh...
>>>>Modern society does not need these young men.
They are reminded of this whenever they leave their rooms.
If they didn’t have rooms to stay in they’d be committing suicide instead.<<<
Or committing violent crime, but the expression of the despair depends on culture.
A real relationship with Jesus, is of course the real answer for these (and all) people!
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These are the things that make a man feel useful.
Well, let's see. The banks killed #1, the feminists killed #2, and Obama killed #3.
Anyone for an anime marathon in my bedroom? :)
KC . . . do you have any idea in the world what this poster is trying to say?
Tentacle porn.
In the US, we developed weird ones like bulimia, anorexia, and cutting. Strange stuff.
I think, a while ago, there was some mental illness in Japan where guys lived in fear that their penis was going to disappear inside their body permanently, like the bird on a broken cuckoo clock.
Huh??!!??
The U.S. has at least 80,000,000 of them. the 'Rats are recruiting more, and their average age is w-a-a-a-a-a-y over 25!
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