This sounds like what the Japanese call Hikikomori (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori). I saw a wonderful anime a

This sounds like what the Japanese call Hikikomori (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori). I saw a wonderful anime about a Hikikomori character recently, called Welcome to the NHK. It's on Netflix, and I recommend it to everyone since it's topical but also because it was oddly (and sometimes not so oddly) moving.