Скачать или смотреть Anxiety & Depression - A Novel Understanding of Hikikomori

A combination of social withdrawal and isolation with accompanying anxiety and depression is an on-going problem that is increasingly common amongst young people and an obvious factor in high levels of mental illness.

In Japan the problem is particularly pronounced and both the condition and its sufferers are known as “Hikikomori” based upon the verbs “hiku” - to pull, draw, retreat & “komoru” to shut oneself up, to say inside. A loose translation in English for those suffering from the condition is “shut-ins”.

This video argues that, rather than relying upon psychology and sociology to understand social withdrawal, literature and philosophy may be more useful.

I use the Russian novel “Oblomov” (as well as referencing Herman Melville’s great novel “Moby Dick” and short story “Bartleby The Scrivener”) and combine it with Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophy to suggest a “novel way” to understand better the nature of the anxiety and depression that comes from social withdrawal.

Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener Story:
@https://moglen.law.columbia.edu/LCS/b...

Image Credit - Bartleby drawing:
Bill Bragg, foliosociety.com (2012)

Images used under Creative Commons License:

Hikikomori:
@https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikom... Schopenhauer’s “On the Sufferings of the World”:

@https://onemorelibrary.com/index.php/...

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