In this episode of The Misanthropic Life, we discuss Hikikomori, a word used in Japan to describe a group of people who live life away from society; a prolonged social withdrawal. First noticed in the 90's and thought to be a fad but today has grown to an estimated 700,000 people in Japan.

SHOW NOTES:

FRANCE 24 English report on Hikikomori:
https://youtu.be/oFgWy2ifX5s

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences: Development and validation of the 25-item Hikikomori Questionaire(HQ-25); A.R.Teo, MD, MS, J.I. Chen,PhD, and T.A. Kato, MD, PhD
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6221010/#!po=0.925926


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