Hikikomori Quotes

“Even in hikikomori cases that continue over a long period of time, chronic symptoms tend not to stabilize; instead, there is a continuous state of mental conflict that gives rise to more mental conflict, as if new wounds are constantly opening.”
― Tamaki Saitō, Hikikomori: Adolescence without End

“The majority of hikikomori cases do not choose on their own to keep living that way just because they want to. They want more than anyone else to escape from their withdrawn situation, but they simply are not able to do so.”
― Tamaki Saitō, Hikikomori: Adolescence without End