Sait?????s main claim is that many clinicians, in diagnosing hikikomori, mistake the ???symptom??? for the ???cause.??? Too often, Sait?? argues, symptoms such as obsessive-compulsive behavior, fear of others, paranoid delusions, and so forth are mistaken for the root problem, and hikikomori are diagnosed as ???obsessive-compulsive??? ???anthropophobic??? (fearing others), or schizophrenic.