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Maybe there's another problem here?
Jan. 9th, 2008 09:57 amOdd news bit last night.
As I understand it (this is translated through Mitsuko, and I wasn't particularly interested at the start, so you have been warned that it may be inaccurate), the story started with a description of a son who stays at home, and is unwilling to face people. But one night last year, for some reason, he started hitting his parents. Mom got beat up, and Dad ran outside. At which point the son calmed down and told his mother to leave, he didn't want to hurt her, but he thought there would be more violence. So she leaves.
And (of course) the police descend on the house. Six policemen in search of the son. No answer. But they find him inside, and he seems quiet, so they ask him to please get in the police car, they have some questions. Somewhere in the process, he started hitting the police.
So they put him in a hospital, and a mental health person works with him for six months. He tells a story of young life with a father who was tanshinfunin (working somewhere else, so not at home), mother doing too much for him, and no one would listen to him, creating frustration that has built up for years inside, until he just exploded.
He's back home now.
At this point, Mitsuko and I are making sage observations to each other about teenage life being hard, and so forth.
And then they went to talk with him, and it turns out that the son is 37. His parents are in their 60s, and retired. He has never left home or worked. And because of his phobia about people, he rarely leaves the house.
As I understand it (this is translated through Mitsuko, and I wasn't particularly interested at the start, so you have been warned that it may be inaccurate), the story started with a description of a son who stays at home, and is unwilling to face people. But one night last year, for some reason, he started hitting his parents. Mom got beat up, and Dad ran outside. At which point the son calmed down and told his mother to leave, he didn't want to hurt her, but he thought there would be more violence. So she leaves.
And (of course) the police descend on the house. Six policemen in search of the son. No answer. But they find him inside, and he seems quiet, so they ask him to please get in the police car, they have some questions. Somewhere in the process, he started hitting the police.
So they put him in a hospital, and a mental health person works with him for six months. He tells a story of young life with a father who was tanshinfunin (working somewhere else, so not at home), mother doing too much for him, and no one would listen to him, creating frustration that has built up for years inside, until he just exploded.
He's back home now.
At this point, Mitsuko and I are making sage observations to each other about teenage life being hard, and so forth.
And then they went to talk with him, and it turns out that the son is 37. His parents are in their 60s, and retired. He has never left home or worked. And because of his phobia about people, he rarely leaves the house.
