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1 posted on 04/12/2023 3:23:37 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
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I’m pretty much that way now. Is that wrong?


2 posted on 04/12/2023 3:26:28 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Not my fault, yer Honor. I went to the Alec Baldwin School of Firearms Handling. )
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For anyone else curious, from 2016...

Hikikomori, A Japanese Culture-Bound Syndrome of Social Withdrawal? A Proposal for DSM-V

But don't get me started on the DSM-V thing...

4 posted on 04/12/2023 3:36:20 PM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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And who knows how many in Okinawa caves since 1945!


5 posted on 04/12/2023 3:44:31 PM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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So, Kubrick and Clarke were only off by a couple of decades.

6 posted on 04/12/2023 3:50:42 PM PDT by jmcenanly (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
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Is 2% a major social crisis?


7 posted on 04/12/2023 3:53:10 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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I see mask wearers here in Phoenix area. Church, gym, stores, etc. Maybe 1 in 20-30, less.


9 posted on 04/12/2023 4:07:55 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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Hikikomori – classed as people who withdraw from society, spending all or almost all of their time isolated at home – account for 2% of people aged 15-62, the survey found.


Just about the average for the population of significantly mentally ill in general population


11 posted on 04/12/2023 4:22:37 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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I've visited Japan several times...every visit having been in winter and the most recent one being about 10 years ago.

Even then I was struck by how many people,while out in public,were wearing surgical type masks.

I wondered back then if there was something in the Japanese psyche that made them particularly afraid of viruses...illness.

12 posted on 04/12/2023 4:37:22 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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Covid? Ha, ha. Blast from the past. Anyone seen Elvis lately?


16 posted on 04/12/2023 4:53:15 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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Agoraphobia can be self induced and it can be self cured.

You did it as a child when you learned to leave the familiar and go out into the the unknown. You can do it now.

It is not easy and you may need some pointers on how to toughen yourself but it can be done.

17 posted on 04/12/2023 4:54:30 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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There are more than that in the USA.


20 posted on 04/12/2023 5:32:10 PM PDT by Zathras
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We seeing changes due to real happenings.

A lady, who lives across the street just lost a younger sister to Covid?, pneumonia and /allergies. According to her adult son, the surving sister his mother is masked most of the day now.

Another lady/neighbor was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year, and she became a self lockin. 2 weeks ago, she said to heck with it and is back outside, walking her dog and no mask.


22 posted on 04/12/2023 6:25:33 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump!: “They’re not after me! They’re after you I’m just in the way!)
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Covid was nothing more than a speed hump on the Road of Life. It had minimal impact on how I live my life.


23 posted on 04/12/2023 7:12:32 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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