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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 95713" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I am so pleased for you, it would have been terrible to put him through years of this.</p><p></p><p>It never fails to amaze me how quickly a diagnosis is made sometimes, when they forget that a lot of kids find childhood very stressful and depressing. Here in Australia we get a lot of Japanese exchange students here for varying periods, for a week or sometimes a month. They are expected to pack a year's worth of experience into that short time. They are middle to senior school in age, often VERY stressed. We've also seen a couple of hikikomori cases, sent to Australia in a last ditch attempt to stop them from withdrawing (it didn't work). </p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori</a></p><p>This is a mostly Japanese condition, it's not autism, I do not believe it is 'cold parenting' as some psychologists have suggested and it's not agorophobia but appears to have aspects of all. It MAY if treated early enough respond to antidepressants or antianxiety medicine, probably would respond even better to reducing the stress in the teen's life, but there are very strong cultural and social factors in what appears to be serious psychosis. Yet people can recover - most hikikomori counsellors are former sufferers.</p><p></p><p>The stress of being a teen in Japan and the expectations on each individual are a major factor in this. So why should we not be seeing similar problems of stress in kids in other countries, especially where society (not necessarily the family, but we are part of society) places very strong expectations on the individual?</p><p></p><p>I hope your son continues to do well. Do keep us posted on your progress as a family. We love success stories!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 95713, member: 1991"] I am so pleased for you, it would have been terrible to put him through years of this. It never fails to amaze me how quickly a diagnosis is made sometimes, when they forget that a lot of kids find childhood very stressful and depressing. Here in Australia we get a lot of Japanese exchange students here for varying periods, for a week or sometimes a month. They are expected to pack a year's worth of experience into that short time. They are middle to senior school in age, often VERY stressed. We've also seen a couple of hikikomori cases, sent to Australia in a last ditch attempt to stop them from withdrawing (it didn't work). [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori[/url] This is a mostly Japanese condition, it's not autism, I do not believe it is 'cold parenting' as some psychologists have suggested and it's not agorophobia but appears to have aspects of all. It MAY if treated early enough respond to antidepressants or antianxiety medicine, probably would respond even better to reducing the stress in the teen's life, but there are very strong cultural and social factors in what appears to be serious psychosis. Yet people can recover - most hikikomori counsellors are former sufferers. The stress of being a teen in Japan and the expectations on each individual are a major factor in this. So why should we not be seeing similar problems of stress in kids in other countries, especially where society (not necessarily the family, but we are part of society) places very strong expectations on the individual? I hope your son continues to do well. Do keep us posted on your progress as a family. We love success stories! Marg [/QUOTE]
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