They are known as hikkikomori (from the Japanese verb “hikkikomoru” meaning “the mullet”). In Japan, about 1 million people (mostly men, or nearly 3.3% of the population aged 15 to 50) live in isolation in their rooms for at least six months, and sometimes for years. Accelerated by the health crisis, “social exclusion” is increasingly developing in Western countries, where it is still very difficult to quantify. “It is a silent but real phenomenon that has forced us to open a specific consultation since 2017. We don’t talk about these young people because they don’t bother anyone. they stay at home where their parents take care of them financially. often terrible loneliness, laments psychologist Mitra Krause, who coordinates the Detours consultancy in Strasbourg (www.ithaque-asso.fr/detours), the only one specifically dedicated to socially excluded young people and their relatives in France.
Patients at Detours…
Source: Le Figaro
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