Huang's World -HIKIKOMORI interview
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- Опубликовано: 30 авг 2017
- The interview of an HIKIKOMORI in japan form VICELAND Huang's World. This is a NON-COMERCIAL video, and i do not want to brake any copyright laws by posting it on RUclips.
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Seems like extreme social anxiety and depression. I hope the Japanese stigma about mental illness changes drastically so these people can get the help they desperately need.
As someone who’s often went months in near total social isolation, I think in many cases the mental illnesses are pathological and it’s the hikikomoris rejection of society that causes the mental illness and not vice versa. Often, these people simply just give up trying to assimilate into society. Maybe they’ve been rejected or treated very harshly during their lives and they give up trying to being a participating member of the world around them. This causes them to go into isolation, which then creates an array of psychological afflictions.
Its starts by reserving your thoughts by putting out others, when you find your path and your groove and anothers voice is a scratched chalkboard.
LABEL: anti social
become doubtful in conversation /rejected in conversation
LABEL: paranoid anxiety
Then the cycle continues and the wolves bite the lone wolf
I think i got this issue for sure
I live with a congenital birth defect. I'm not from Japan, but I can relate with this people and this style of life, when you stick out, you just want to be left alone, the problem is you don't have access to a good job, love relationships or even healthcare, this is truly living in the fringe parts of society, and it suits us, we are disliked by many, most of us don't have the interest in becoming the image of a brand, activists for disabled people, or the inclusivity token worker in a corporation. Just give some dignity to us, we are humans after all.
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The Hikikomori phenomenon is not only in Japan and does not only happen to the Japanese generation. This is world-wide disillusionment!
Not just a Japanese problem
yes you right
@@lukefeistamel why you got to be a but hole?
Happens here in Malaysia AS WELL. And I believe there will be the same sort of issues happening anywhere in a modern city area. Especially modern city area.
Happens in Australia too
@@ObscureSampology really??
Absolutely fascinating, and heartbreaking. I relate to this far more than I'd like to admit.
He described it perfectly, Japan (well I don't live in Japan, but applies to many places in the world too) is a suffocating place to live.
Seems like a nice guy who can't make sense or assimilate in society. Never understood why people can't live by each other's happiness, we just compete for useless badges untill we realise we all wind up buried in dirt and it all means nothing then it's too late. The rich have their own rules and systems they live by, I wish this guy finds his passion outside the system which usually is the real path to success.
Damn this guy really is some hard truth on our society! This guy smart.
The lack of appreciation, the demonization of people like him, and the conformity of society is the reason they exist. They force things to everyone that not everyone couldn't really adopt.
Most hikikomoris are very intelligent people, they are not mentally ill, I would say they are having a shamanic experience while their society labels them as depressed or schizophrenics. I feel for them as I consider myself a quasi hikikomori in a western society, but I don't understand them being THAT passive closed in a room in front of a screen, that's a suicide road to the physical and mental health. I believe most hikikomoris need to go rural and search for more contact with Nature(then enjoy their pc sessions in the evening)
i tell you first hand that in Australia and in US ppl still tries to fit in, it's not a culture of discipline and respecting order and authority, but still a culture of having to conduct yourself in a certain way so that people may consider you cool which in turn allows you to thrive. In other words, there is still a kind of cultural or behavioral hierarchy. E.g. being fit > not being fit; extrovert > introvert; fun > serious.
It’s just the way the world works.
Yes I agree with you. I have lived in Australia for a couple of years and have found out that many people there are victims of societal pressure.
I'm Indonesian and from the third world society but i don't understand why peoples like you still hate your own 1st world society who value individualism, introversion and privacy highly.
Here in Indonesia or 3rd world country individualism, introversion, and socially avoidant attitude will be blamed disgrace and your neighbors may likely forced or yell over you to get out of your house.its not your parent but your neighborhood who will yell at you for your condition seriously.
It's call conformism, been fighting it my whole life.
@@des87908 they won't have anything to say if you work your body up to Marvin Hagler's physique.
Actually in the Digital Age/Digital World most people have become semi-hikikomori. And are happy with that (games, social media, online shopping, blogging, YT)!
Happy,.or distracted?
To stand out in Japan is to risk being ostracised, either overtly or covertly. The society's suppression of individual freedom and freedom of expression is the issue. It accounts for Japan's cleanliness, its rule-based societal norms, its politeness. However, the suppression of the animalistic human spirit (or honne) will likely lead to illness. These Hikikomori's must be allowed to behave the way they like in society without the fear of being despised or ostracised. This will require greater tolerance and empathy of the Japanese society for individual differences and for minority groups. After all, the mal-treatment of the minority by the majority is a form of social bullying.
NEET here
It because people dont care each other in japan.. that why hikikimoris or whatever it called exist
I went to Japan and the japanese people were very generous and kind, the most civilized i ever meet, but as you said, there are some glitches in society, in this case the lack of empathy and social inclusiveness .
That's not true at all. People care about people within their own social circles the most and general society second, this is pretty much everywhere around the world afaik. In America we would just call hikikomori losers and treat them like shit.
@@Drownedinblood you're correct, Empathy is typically reserved for only the in-group of the person in question. In-group/out-group bias runs rampant in humans ability to empathize, Paul Bloom has done work on this (he's a Yale Psychology professor) and advocates for "rational empathy" because of it, I think he's right too, only ever empathizing with your perceived in-group is generally shitty and eventually leads to Tribalism.
isn't what he said true about every society? These poor souls didn't consent to live in Japan. They didn't consent to living in a stressful capitalist conformist society.
no one forbids them from moving to another country
...but capitalism does (and the rising influence of nationalism)
Better than filthy communism
Speaking to my heart. But I am in America though. Not a hiko but want to get out of this country
@@wilmer89 is freedom illusion
Actually, with social media, youtube, video games, online shopping, porn, news, remote working . . . most people I know have become semi-hikikomoris.
My brother lives in japan, and he tell d stories about how great d pressure in there..., especially if u r male, u r expected to become successful, and useful to society, with d way common people's hope for....
Imo, im glad im not live or born in japan, the pressure is real, easy going person like me, cant fit into this society....
Communication is key. Be open and honest with your parents. Explain to them that you don't want to be a hermit for years but you are struggling to cope with life at the moment. It's not that you are lazy or stupid. Tell them you are ashamed of not going to school, so much that it's hard to go back now. Tell them you need help getting back on your feet. There is help out there. Take it in small steps.
The first step is always admitting a problem.
Step two is opening up and asking for help. Sometimes we can't solve our problems alone so please don't be afraid or ashamed to ask. You family only want what's best for you, just like you. Talk to them.
It's not just Japan. I come from nyc and this is the same attitude if not worse as there is a lot of wealthy successful people here and the environment forces you to have to succeed just to pay rent. If you are easy going expect to live on benefits and in the ghetto or with like 5 roommates for a place meant for 3 people max.
Here we call it depression.
depression can be a cause but i would't equate them
It is not the same, wtf
I mean, when you go through depression it feels like nothing matters anymore, hygiene, actions, ect...but it all of it goes to a certain point, that's when it feels like all of it breaks and suddenly you start getting better, sometimes it happens and things get better, sometimes suicide happens
Hikikomoris have social anxiety or depressions. I m one too. Not from japan and not that extrem but i m isolated too.
Basement dwellers
He is the one, someone unplug him from the matrix
In 2020 after loosing my job i decided to become a hikikomori and shut in for over 3 years
hope you can find the power to bounce back! all the love!
Anyone else here because of Welcome to The NHK
Nobody cares you in real life. Manga is lies. I understand him.
Looking for people like ....sato....p
Conspiracy
Somebody send this man a copy of "Fight Club"
The irony is that samurai philosophy is similar to fight clubs.
Where's the irony, though? Japan hasn't followed samurai philosophy for at least a hundred years now. What this man exactly needs is more bushido in his life.
@@dondeestaCarter Exactly as i was thinking, they need to stop escaping reality, this guy isn't a poor victim of the society. He is just hedonist who doesn't face reality and hide from it. This HAPPENS EVERYWHERE today. It's not Japan.
@@MonkeyDLuffy-ie2gk I don't thinks you could label hedonism to what's going on here. I'm sure he would love to have a wife, a job and kids. This guy is a poor victim of his poor genes. That's why he needs bushido. Naturally good genes ooze bushido, they don't need training.
Donde está Carter!! Poor genes are everywhere, still no excuse, much of the people with great genes are still hedonist smoking drugs and stuff in western society. For some people is easier to face reality i know that. The thing is Japan by itself give tools to escape reality... Otakus, Hentai, cosplayers, porn, “hiring” a wife or gf, internet sleeping cafes. Japanese people already have good genes, they are just being tamed.
God bless him and others like him 💕
I feel so bad for him:(
but i can feel a comfort inside of this guy, regardless many comments say "poor" or "pity" - the condition of his room - the social life and the disorder
I wanted to be a hikikomori but I’m too poor
i lowkey feel bad fir these types of individuals because i think they are the type of people that refuses to conform to the typical blue collar like lifestyle that most modern societies pressure every adults to be like as well as give us this false impression that is what will make us have a more happier or productive individuals in life. i think productivity is definitely there as you arecontributing to that societys workforce but sometimes as a result, this type of lifestyle is not for some peoples cup of tea especially when i think of extremely creative people or people that prefer to live life by their own rules. it can be quite challenging and lonesome i think if their ages are not past the retirement age because people and society expects them to act a certain way than what they have pictured themselves to be the most comfortable or they are being authentic to thenselves. i wish in a place like japan, they could create special community for these people so that at least they dont have to feel lonely and may find like minded people there as well as create job opportunities for them that best suits their creative talents. it is very common for a lot of hikikomori to engage in activities like art, videogaming, reading, or writing. i get why many of them stop attending schools because of the social aspect required and i dont think many of them suck at socializing but it could be more of them having severe social anxiety to the point where they wouls rather just not talk at all and rather do things on their own independently. what sucks about modern school systems is that their environment does not suit every personality. i think people that are more towards introverted thinking will feel quite overwhelmed by being around too many people as well as expected to talk and get their work done in class.
I can tell by this comment that you truly understand the hikikomori condition.
1:16 I like how there was a direct visual contrast to what the hikikomori was saying. Some of these people aren't afraid to stand out a little, or a lot.
Liuhuayue
They were doing it on purpose n masked. Try being weird everyday n sees what happen. This is why cosplay n j sub culture thrive. It was seen as a fantasy, entertainment temp thing. If they adopted it like a perm lifestyle there will be conswquences( saw a vid about "dark skin" j sub culture, the girl was thrown out of the house. Thk goodness she didnt turn hikkikomori n able to live out her life).
I'm curious as to how rural hikikomori compare to urban. I wonder if a large part of the problem for many of them is the fact that they're stuck in a large city that's like perpetually drowning in a sea of people. If I was poor (but not so poor as to be homeless), had no motorized vehicle, had no job, and was stuck in a city like that, I could see myself falling into self-incarceration as well.
The combination of big city living and not driving sounds like an absolute hell to me. Couple that with a severe lack of disposable income and lack of attraction from the opposite sex and I'd say that's a perfect recipe for a hikikomori.
I get it; I absolutely get it....and life only sucks harder the older you get. All your friends disappear as you approach your 30's (because all the fun and attractive ones are all getting married and shit and no longer have time and disposable income for hobbies)...and God forbid if you slip up and fall off the life Wagon. Anything that takes a lot of effort to consistently do (work/school/exercise routine/sobriety/diet/not smoking/[insert grindset here]) is oh so easy to fall out of the habit of doing...and working your way back into that metaphorical wagon is oh so damn hard...and time only exacerbates that difficulty.
Yeah...I get it.
Rural Hikikomori cannot be classified as Hikikomori because they goes out and can still avoid meeting anyone. But you can see them doing the same thing in the riverbanks or cut log under a tree. Many farmers does the same, the difference is that nobody sees the vast empty and equally dangerous space that is of a river or a cliff. Rather we as an urban dweller romanticize every place that is not urban as a releasing unshackling bounds of walls, a certain freedom to move. But at the same time, solitary people are actively prevented to go away from a city for the lack of retreat housing AND land prices rising amidst economic crisis. AFAIK, village lodges or cheap rents are very scarce for Japan City Planning was made to reduce underdeveloped regions and streamlining tourist flow.
I believe everyone secretly felt the same just in different spaces. If not, alcoholism or hedonism or materialism wouldn't be a big thing. Everyone at everyplace of time is carrying a burden of proof to succeed in life, but city makes it exponentially harder for natural born kind farmer or gardener to fit in the concrete jungle.
I wish i could help him get a bigger room. with the proper amenities he could be so much happier.
That guy was also a hoarder. Most hoarders are also hermits. This is an universal problem.
True inroverts.
Hope he is doing better.
Why there's so many suits that looks like pink guy's outfit in the video?
accept the mystery !
radu matei hush hush
Yeah like why that scared the crap out of me when the first one is showed
This guy is effect result from hardest race economy after end of WWII.
society is killing people... poor guy.
I'm hikikomori but my apartment is clean and organized
American call it neckbeard, fedora, omega male,mom basement dweller, nerd, sloth. So many stereotypes
I wish I could come and clean your room!
Monica Geller dixit.
Love ❤️ your food blogs!!!
Im still waitin for him to invite him in cuz a hallway interview just trippin me out to hard dont even know why lol
bro its criminal that ur channel only has 191 subs. This is big journalist quality. Keep it up man
I think these hikikomori can move to Osaka and start it all over again.
He should not be asking for help. He should be creating a path for others. Such an oppressive culture is ripe for trailblazers to make change.
Poor guy
Man that's wild here it's called a hoarder but this problem is everywhere
He doesn’t look 300 lbs. this proves Japanese food is healthy.
Sivin- aha persona lo hikikomori Mister Huang.
Japanese value collectivism over personal appitudes and talents.
More focus on mental health and individuality!
Forget the hikkis, interview the people in those crazy outfits.
Chances are,they don't have much to say beyond "Look at my clothes"
Which is sort-of what the Hikikomori guy was getting at.
too much competition killing people
Appearance and social skills are more important than feelings so sure there are people that don’t fit in!
never ever light a fire in that room
2:01 THINKING ABOUT THE POT COOKIE THAT IS STILL LEFT.
There are a lot of Hikikimoris in the USA they have pink, red , green or yellow hair
HikiKumori, i feel like i have this but i got bills pay.
Living in a garbage pit can't be helping the situation, either.
Thoughtsurfer Zone
Some hikkikomori couldnt even leave the house and japan have a timed system for garbage collection. In my country, we just have a garbage chute that goes to a large bin on the ground floor of the apartment building. so there is no need to leave the hse...
@@RonLarhz Where are you from?
@@Xoras93
Singapore.
But newer apartment blocks does not have it in every home anymore. It is just one centralized chute near the lift lobby.(still run through every level though)
@@RonLarhz ohh okay I can relate now, hello from Malaysia next door lmao. (Not a Malaysian tho)
I watch other hikikomori who does not throw things he touched. I think it could be a disorder to.
Japanese society needs to change... for the individuals
not just japan
The hikikomori is like saying "wtf are you saying, man, stop mumbling" to the English speaking host all the time
❤
How to not turn into an HnK:
1. Always participate
2. Don't make isolation a habit
3. Make sure you socialize with people so you are always comfortable with talking
Once you lose your social skills and become awkward, that's when it starts. You start talking less and less. By the time you realize it you are stuck in your room. You can't do anything at this point, because you are scared of talking to people and how they will judge you. You are now stuck. It's a horrible situation to be in. It may sound ridiculous but it's harder than you think.
But I believe the human brain can adapt as long as you can get through the uncomfortable stages of starting again.
Of I have chance I will go to help him with anything I can
HANDLING DISAPPOINTMENT
He knows the way I take; when He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
JOB 23:10
How do you handle disappointment so that you don't walk away from life thinking, "Well, it's all over now. I'll never be the same. I'll never have what I've wanted. It's gone...forever"? You handle it, my friend, by faith understanding that disappointment is God's appointment.
Ronnie Ray Avila True!Accepting life as it is and adapting to it is the first stage of living life to the full!
Didn't he have to leave his apartment to acquire all that junk?
HOW do they pay thier bills?? If they don't leave thier house to work??????
Their parents pay for them.
I dont think so. Unemployment benefits will be more likely
Unless u are super rich or at the very least u got investments bringing in cash i don't see how u can survive without going out to work!They might also be financed by parents that is another possibility!!Even some investments still require u to go out and check on them even if they are being run efficiently.U can't trust ur managers 100% all the time!!
Jupiter Stars their..
The business men are overworked, get drunk and fall out on the street, or commit suicide. No excuse for his place to look like that! Take him out, and call a dump truck.
No eye contact
Frankie B is a particularity very common en this situation.
He COULD have autism which would explain why he's ostracized. Autistic people often fall short of acting like neurotypicals and miss a lot of social cues. In Japan where society has a lot of strict rules, there's no room for someone like this. It's really a shame.
autistic isnt a bad word or something. Maybe its actually beecause of people like you
He kept looking down at his dick, I think Eddie wore something weird that showed his dick or something. Maybe Eddie had erection and that guy couldn’t help but look at it.
Feeling uneasy, alienated and unworthy strongly encourage no eye-contact. People 'miss'-more like avoid social cues when they're starved of inclusion and human contact, especially growing up. Schools and society being so competitive, individualist, superficial and alienating should be the emphasis.
So sad very sad those stories are very sad
Fırst time seeing a japanesse person with an adequate english
Bawa dia ke psikiater. Berikan terapi okupasi. Orang ini, perlu pertolongan. Dan perawatan. Dimana hati nurani. Memperlakukan manusia seperti memperlakukan manusia. Tidak ada yang namanya sampah. Semua nyawa berharga.
I don't fit in either. I don't want to try to fit in. If I don't fit then I don't fit.
Im tired of not having a purpose in life
Get better my man
1. Throw out all that garbage. Old stagnant energy.
2. Buy a set of bearable dumbbells. Work out. Self love.
Or...
3. Migrate
easy saying.......doing difficult
Why is it mainly men?
every country has its own problems
I think he has Aspergers or Autism because I’m like that and I do have Aspergers Syndrome. What if the Hikomori are just Autistic?
Kanzaki Shalom MR.
I feel like LSD would solve this problem.
im a hikki too
Thats not a hikikomori
Thats a hoarder
he needs a extrovert friend
No no no, it is trap, it just like suicide, I'm suffered from social anxiety and I know it, anxiety and extrovert is very opposite and it like pushing negative magnet.
Friendship with another introvert with similar hobbies, but more socialized, could help him. I know from experience that it has a healing effect. Friendship with an extrovert not only scares off a loner, but is usually not needed by a person with an already established social circle.
✌🏼 me, in indonesia.
Japanese society is obsessed with working hard, long hours, forgetting emotions, standing out
for excellence among their workmates and carrying on.
Life isn't like that. They aren't robots and jobs are hard to get. When parents die, a single guy is all alone
and can't cope with the loneliness as well. Young ones give up as they aren't valued at work even if they are blessed to get a job.
Parents also heap expectations on them. No wonder they give up.
Anyone here from Yume Nikki ?
Coronatime
Pink Guy
These are called NEETs.
hikikomori= social anxiety disorder.
Johannes Michael Rudloff
Not really... The way my brain function/see the world cant fit in modern society. In other words, im too simple minded n innocent for the plotting world. I tried to get myself diagnosed but the psychiatrist just brushed me off saying there's nthg wrong with me.
Yet no one could tell me why i was ostracised throughout my life....until i found this term hikkikomori....
I also thought that describes it all.
As someone with social anxiety i can confirm that. Im sure more then 90% hikikomoris have a social anxiety or a depression.
Japan has everything but social stability and sincere love with weird and uncommon people. Like people having mentla illnesses they regard us loke we are factory defects and the normal people are normally produced robots. We are outcast in Japan
@@romella_karmey it is pure neoliberalism in japan its a bit worse then in western countrys but almost the same here. Its not only a japanese problem
i don’t understand the garbage thing. If your your world is soo tiny, why wasting the rest of the place with dirt? He can bring it away at 4 am n the morning when nobody is on the street.
Hell is other people
Why is this guy completely ignores the condition of the Hikikomori's room and then continues to speak English with him.. That's WEIRD and freaky..
It's quite sad really
Pathetic really, people need to stop the pity party
@@punchypizzainpizza6616 🤦
How do they earn money to survive?Pay rent and all that...Mysterious!!
Parents
@@jerichoj1540 like really!??🤔🤔
@@nelsonkiiru7252 😂
I'm a hikikomori and I'm proud of it!!
We call these people Doomers in the U.S.
this guy would benefit living in california if he can speak decent english
Biggest problem is that Japan's idea of help is to just tell the Hikkikomori to do whatever they tell them, and to just stop being hikkikomori.
They became that way, because people are too fucking obnoxious there to deal with. Why are they a lot of times virgins? Women are self entitled pricks there of the newer generations, and possibly a bit of the older ones to.
Why do they not get out much? Because it's better to not walk in a world where any mistake can be an excuse to put you behind bars in a place that has a 99% conviction rate, and there's no way that 100% of those convictions are all guilty. They legit have insurance just for people accused of being train molesters. Why? Because it's becoming that common to have false accusations thrown for personal satisfaction (of putting someone you don't like for whatever reason behind bars), to the point that insurance is needed.
The guy is also a hoarder. Big emotional and psychological problems. We should not feel sorry for them, we should help if we can. The pressure of society is real. Doing nothing and hiding away as a hikki is easier of course. People need to stand up for themselves so they don't get pushed around. Tell people to shutup when they are wrong. Don't take crap from anybody. If you see someone being abused or bullied like student or employee, tell the bully to Shutup. Good luck everyone
That hiki guy answer was same with me..public is totally toxic n stupid!! Hiko people just dont want to be same that toxic and stupid like them
If I had money to live on for the rest of my life I'd hikikomori myself too. But my small flat would at least be tidy. I'd have a treadmill too and some dumbbells. No need to go out there's cable TV, the internet and online purchasing and delivery of everything.
*If I had money to live on for the rest of my life I'd hikikomori myself too*.
same here
Ditto. I'd only go out when I want to and to meet up with friends i trust.