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Azul
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- Aug 21, 2019
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If you could disappear and had the survival skills to live outside of society, in the wildlings, would you do it? Would it make you feel better?
I think that's an accurate observation. Whilst you wouldn't lose any mental tendancies you'd be so knackered from just surviving you wouldn't have the energy to be depressed.I don't think my mental illnesses would just vanish if I were to go off-grid. I wouldn't have to interact with people, sure, but one kind of problems would be replaced with another ones. Though I wonder how back in the day, before society was a thing, people would just spend their time trying to survive, hunting for food, searching for shelter, etc, and depression barely existed, if at all. Nowadays, you don't have to put in any effort to survive (though living with mental illnesses sure does seem to require effort), the world's available at your fingertips and that can lead the mind to dark places if you don't distract yourself with pointless entertainment or pursue career paths, relationships and so on.
A hut in the middle of nowhere with internet would be kinda nice, I think. Although you'd still have to get food somehow. But as much as I'm awkward around humans, loathe interacting and just generally don't fit in into society, I think I'd slowly go insane. Kind of what I'm going through right now. Isolation, loneliness, a sense of despair and all that. Though if I decided to kill myself there, my body probably wouldn't be found until it had finished decomposing lolI think that's an accurate observation. Whilst you wouldn't lose any mental tendancies you'd be so knackered from just surviving you wouldn't have the energy to be depressed.
I've changed my mind. I want my log cabin in the hills. Just with broadband and WiFi just in case.
I'm utterly isolated too and not through choice. I'm a gregarious introvert. I like other people but I have to be alone to recharge. So I guess I'd add a horse and a truck to this idyll. Mmm it's getting more complicated. ..A hut in the middle of nowhere with internet would be kinda nice, I think. Although you'd still have to get food somehow. But as much as I'm awkward around humans, loathe interacting and just generally don't fit in into society, I think I'd slowly go insane. Kind of what I'm going through right now. Isolation, loneliness, a sense of despair and all that. Though if I decided to kill myself there, my body probably wouldn't be found until it had finished decomposing lol
I think I pushed everyone away and burned all bridges the first time my depression got worse and now I'm left only with my immediate family. Nobody cared to reach out when I isolated myself from everyone. Well, except for my parents. I'm glad for that, at least.I'm utterly isolated too and not through choice. I'm a gregarious introvert. I like other people but I have to be alone to recharge. So I guess I'd add a horse and a truck to this idyll. Mmm it's getting more complicated. ..