{"id":67785,"date":"2026-07-11T06:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=67785"},"modified":"2026-07-11T06:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:22:08","slug":"inside-the-lives-of-singapores-young-hikikomori-who-withdraw-from-school-family-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=67785","title":{"rendered":"Inside the lives of Singapore\u2019s young hikikomori, who withdraw from school, family, the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>\u201cBy him going back to his room, he\u2019s communicating to some extent,\u201d said Rauf Malachi Redza Fauzi, the social worker supporting the family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>\u201cHe\u2019s letting you know that something is causing (him) to want to withdraw, because withdrawing is a coping mechanism \u2026 when we\u2019re stressed, upset, angry, frustrated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>For Shaista Qistina, isolation did not mean never leaving the house. By the time filming began, the 18-year-old had started going out again, but only with family members or her social worker beside her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>There was a time, however, when she could barely leave home. In lower secondary, she would vomit on the way to school and hide in the toilet during recess. She later told her family she had been bullied.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Her hair became a shield. When she walked, she looked down so it could cover her face.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/cna-insider\/singapore-hikikomori-hidden-youth-shutdown-withdraw-school-family-world-6245706\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBy him going back to his room, he\u2019s communicating to some extent,\u201d said Rauf Malachi Redza Fauzi, the social worker supporting the family. \u201cHe\u2019s letting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--jXVhcwBY--\/c_crop,h_770,w_1370,x_27,y_5\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/07\/10\/screenshot_2026-07-10_at_7.54.07_pm.png?itok=l2Lu5ORz","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[238,26332,1514,848,209,17263,526,273],"class_list":["post-67785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-family","tag-hikikomori","tag-lives","tag-school","tag-singapores","tag-withdraw","tag-world","tag-young","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}