Funny how everyone’s response is always to suggest therapy or medication and never to question whether the society people are escaping from is one worth participating in.
The man living happily wired into the net meeting his financial obligations and not breaking any law is fine in my eyes.
Sometimes the net is preferable to the available versions of meatspace
It' doesn't matter whether someone participate activly with society, as long as they benefiting from it, they are a part of it.
people genuinely believe they are being empathic, but copy and pasting "prevention resources" isn't getting close to what people are going through
引き子守
The first two characters imply someone who is dragged along and the second two refer to a nursemaid suggesting nursemaid-ing someone who doesn't want to be here. Not in defense of any such defeatist behavior but there is the question of how (and possibly why) would you impose measures to counteract that mindset if individuals and their support context are comfortable with it?
The 引き part is less "dragged along" in this context and more "pull away from," so the literal meaning is "to pull away from (society) and isolate oneself."
引きこもり [ひきこもり] (n) (1) shut-in, stay-at-home, hikikomori, people
引きずる [ひきずる] (v5r,vt) (1) to drag along, to pull, (2) to force someone along, (3) to prolong, to drag out, (4) to influence strongly, to seduce, (P)
子守 [こもり] (n,vs) (1) nursemaid, nanny, babysitter, (2) child-minding
But starting from [ひきこもり] ambiguities are possible.