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Japan - you don't have to be mad to live here, but it helps

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Japan - you don't have to be mad to live here, but it helps

Postby yanpa » Sun Jun 08, 2014 11:35 pm

In the Japan Times, someone wrote:Japan: a haven for the psychologically troubled
by William Bradbury

In an interview in 2009, Tokyo-based musician Jim O’Rourke said that Japan is the only place he feels happy. According to the article in The New York Times, “Every time he returned to the United States, his mood sank.”

I found myself relating to this sentiment. At age 16 I was in counseling, and at 18 I was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder and depression. Just months before I moved to Japan, I was afraid to touch raw meat and couldn’t sleep at night for fear the freezer door was open (thus causing food poisoning and killing all of my flatmates).

Yes, that was how I ruminated. I used to wish I could turn my brain off somehow without sleeping or drinking. Although that isn’t possible, living in Japan has at least dialed those thoughts down.

One of the main reasons my OCD is in remission here is because the Japanese are so forgiving. In Britain, I lived forever in fear of persecution by outside forces because of mistakes I was sure I was making through ignorance. But in Japan, there’s a comforting sense that things will work out OK regardless of my lack of understanding of practical concerns.

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Re: Japan - you don't have to be mad to live here, but it he

Postby wagyl » Sun Jun 08, 2014 11:43 pm

In the land of the OCD, the mildly OCD man is king.
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Re: Japan - you don't have to be mad to live here, but it he

Postby matsuki » Mon Jun 09, 2014 12:24 pm

wagyl wrote:In the land of the OCD, the mildly OCD man is king.


Pretty much this...
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Postby J.A.F.O » Mon Jun 09, 2014 1:41 pm

Japanese are so forgiving


:?: really :?: Must have missed this trait... then again I don't get a lot of stuff here either.
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Re: Japan - you don't have to be mad to live here, but it he

Postby Mike Oxlong » Mon Jun 09, 2014 1:56 pm

J.A.F.O wrote:
Japanese are so forgiving


:?: really :?: Must have missed this trait... then again I don't get a lot of stuff here either.

Gotta say, I'm not getting that part either.
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Re: Japan - you don't have to be mad to live here, but it he

Postby kurogane » Mon Jun 09, 2014 2:11 pm

William Bradbury is a freelance writer and musician in Tokyo.


I'm going with perma-newbie culture shock. He probably deals with everybody in English, in which case, given how royally and self-indulgently f'ed up he seems to proudly be he probably takes their politely bemused indifference as forgiveness. I know a few perma-newbie dorks in Kyoto that give off the same stench.

To be fair, Japanese are more, how to say, accepting or forgiving of mental patients in public than we used to be here in Vancouver. What perma-newbies like this guy don't realise is that is why people don't call much, or outright avoid him. I actually respect that method. And he did nail that bit on the self-affirmation of Japanese dorks. The self-indulgence of those jackoffs is appalling.

But yeah, so forgiving.....................some, maybe, depending on the situation. But once they know you know the rules, I would go with even less forgiving than with other Japanese.
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Re: Japan - you don't have to be mad to live here, but it he

Postby matsuki » Mon Jun 09, 2014 2:36 pm

Newb confusing amusement/inferiority complex/OCD politeness with forgiveness. Wouldn't be the first to make that mistake.
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Re: Japan - you don't have to be mad to live here, but it he

Postby kurogane » Mon Jun 09, 2014 2:47 pm

Exactically. I found the chap almost likeable in spite of his self-glorifications and childish self-indulgence.

I do still like a chirpy newbie occasionally.
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Re: Japan - you don't have to be mad to live here, but it he

Postby Coligny » Mon Jun 09, 2014 3:28 pm

Mike Oxlong wrote:
J.A.F.O wrote:
Japanese are so forgiving


:?: really :?: Must have missed this trait... then again I don't get a lot of stuff here either.

Gotta say, I'm not getting that part either.



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