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Staying at home until you never go out again: what is Hikikomori syndrome?

Living locked up in a room of a few square meters, for months, without any social interaction: this is Hikikomori syndrome. This phenomenon, which mostly affected young Japanese, is gaining scale in Europe. Hikikomori syndrome appeared in Japan in the early 1990s. This word, derived from the Japanese verb hikikomoru, “close”, refers to people who […]