Hikikomori

Imagine being particularly sensitive to what others say. Consider what it must be like to not feel loved, understood, and accepted. Pretend you're in a world where no one speaks your language and you can't make yourself understood. What emotion might arise from an experience like this? And what inclination to act might it provoke? In some cases, you might want to disappear from everyone's sight, and in the most extreme cases, even from your own image.

The phenomenon of hikikomori is an extreme event that involves a series of psychological, relational, and environmental factors. The individual, due to their inability to feel like a part of the world, withdraws from social life, becoming trapped in a toxic loop of self-exclusion. At the core of this is the perception of not being loved or worthy of love from others, and the belief that others and the world are bad or wrong. Isolation can be temporary but can also last for many years, depriving the person of the opportunity to grow and mature through new experiences and living their own life. This condition, originating in Japan, is spreading throughout the Western world. A black figure, a boy perhaps, without identity, lamenting their empty and futile existence, with legs curled up on a dirty and dilapidated couch. A clock that doesn't mark any time, as if time had ceased to exist. An otherworldly scenario, adorned with a constellation of marvelous and surreal colors, echoing the toxic and negative thoughts of the black figure, in a hallucinatory and psychotic context induced by extreme isolation, where the only contact with reality is represented by one's memories. Thus begins the exhausting attempt to break free from the persecution of one's thoughts and the world.

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