PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Palpitations, Voodoo Death, Visual Impairment
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Japanese kid keisuke who decided to live in his parents" kitchen. 6 months in an asocial state, not participating in education or employment, having no intimate relationships with anyone outside the immediate families. Onset before late 20s, and other psychiatric disorders cannot explain the primary symptom of withdrwal. Usually appears among japanese students (esp. boys) at junior high and high schools when they decide that they no longer want to go to school or to have much social interaction with anyone. The typical response: shut oneself off from the outside world and spend days reading books, playing video games, watching tv. 1 million japanese suffer from it (disputable data) Spread of more lenient and overprotecting parenting norms, decline in birthrate that has allowed children their own bedrooms, and reconstructing the labor market that has eroded the security and predictability for future jobs [contributions to this illness]
