Tbh that does sound kind of nice right about now.
this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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Shit moves so fast you'd come back to a completely different world. Itd be like the planet of the apes
Back to the island it is then!
Anybody would rather be lost at sea for 29 days than be forced to participate in a rigged economy
The irony is that living stranded on an island is a return to reality, not an escape from it.
Therapy won't make the world they have to go back to any better than it was before.
Yeah, wtf does therapy even do? My brain is fucked because of the reality of my situation not because I have some dysfunctional mindset I need to work through. It's all external factors. Having to grind away at a job I hate just to scrape by while everything continues to get more expensive, billionaires burning the world, and our government falls to fascists is fucking hell. You'd have to be crazy not to have a fucked up mentality. Am I supposed to spend even more money I don't have just to talk about my problems?
Alternatively being able to completely disconnect from all this shit for a month where I have no choice but to simply focus on survival sounds pretty great.
Therapy is mostly about meditation, coping strategies, and self-improvement.
I think you might balk at the suggestion of developing coping strategies at all, but this:
being able to completely disconnect from all this shit for a month
Is a coping strategy. It doesn't really fix anything, but it does help you manage stress. I assume you can't take a month off, so therapy would say, "Okay, what's a second idea."
The problem with therapy is when you don't share the life goals of the therapist or the people trying to help you, you end up in a gridlock. I have never had a productive experience with therapists as an adult and I don't have infinite money to keep trying. My experiences with therapist or other support people in the public school system was downright evil as they wanted me to accomplish their life goals rather then my own.
I know why I'm depressed. I'm depressed because the world is broken and the people that want to do something about it are stonewalled by the people who benefit from it being broken. The elites that know they benefit from it being broken and view that are the natural order and their delusional followers who carved out a bit of limited success in their "professionalism." Those "professionals" fill the school system and hamper kids who could do better and brainwash them to settle for financial success.
There's no realistic coping. I just took a week of PTO but by about four days into it my mind was bringing up all the shit I was going to have to do when I got back which just stressed me out again. The only way to get ahead of it would be to get everything done so there's nothing waiting when you come back which in my role is basically impossible. The only way I see out of this for myself is if I could ever manage to generate enough passive income that I don't have to have a full time job anymore. But economically everything is going to shit and I was already not in a great place before that so again it's not realistic to expect anything to improve. Talking about it won't change anything.
There is. Listen, I've watched enough shonen to know that acquiring a positive attitude in the face of adversity is a source of profound strength.
I'm not saying it's easy.
The world is burning right now? Yeah, and? These are the times you need it the most. This is the time all that mental practice was for.
If a tiger strolled in on your month-long wilderness vacation and bit half your leg off, what, do you just bleed out? Roll over and die? Most men I know know that that's the time you need to pull yourself together, rid yourself of worldly concerns like panic, tourniquet the wound or whatever, and get yourself to a goddamn medic.
The tiger runs off in this scenario, by the way. It was scared by a... bird. "I wouldn't have a chance to give up—the tiger would eat me!" Shush.
Okay, I keep trudging along. Great. That's what I've been doing. I'm pulled together as I'm going to be. It doesn't make me happy or optimistic about the future.
"Hope" is an internal battle. The truly hopeful have learned how to create their own.
So they're either delusional or they've discovered a path out of the hole they're in. I have neither of those things.
Well, to be fair, neither will getting lost at sea
No, but on a remote uninhabited island you can pretend the bullshit doesn't exist.
It's incredibly hard to delude yourself when something is in front of yourself face. Although this is apparently a flaw in me, as most people seem perfectly capable of it.
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I'm in therapy and I'd still like a month away on a remotely uninhabited island.
But. If you were there...
Well depends on what I'd have obviously, and what the island is like.
But assume basic glamping equipment and a perfect island and I'd be better than now.
Of course crashing on an atoll somewhere without any equipment would be pretty bleak. Deadly even.
Wouldn't be a problem if people weren't more willing to go to therapy than achieve peace of mind.
Who would choose a natural escape over institutionalized therapy? Me. That's who
Therapy doesn't fix reality.
It should help with developing a more healthy perception of reality, isn't that enough?
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Sounds more like a break from a crushing capitalist system.
This was in the context of COVID:
Nanjikana said he has taken some positives away from the experience, such as a forced break from the chaos of a global pandemic.
“I had no idea what was going on while I was out there. I didn’t hear about Covid or anything else,” he said. “I look forward to going back home but I guess it was a nice break from everything.”
The comment says a lot about what some people think therapy is for, too.
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Being lost at sea for 30 days is the therapy
Too bad he got rescued a day early then.
That last day is where it really sticks/integrates long-term. Too bad.
Dude was out at sea for a month and tried to find a positive from it and peeps decided to be sexist about it
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Who can afford therapy? These people probably lost their houses not paying rent for a single month. They didn't ask for it, they couldn't. They were forced into the situation, and enjoyed it while they could.
Most men and women in 2026 🤣🤣🤣
Is therapy really that good? I know lots of folks that have been to therapy. They’re still shit.
I went to therapy and found a bunch of NEW things that I was (successfully) suppressing.
I PAID to have MORE problems. I can't afford ME.
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Therapy allowed me to let my guard down enough to see who I really am. That was pretty invaluable. Not easy or fun, but worth.
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I have been and still am in therapy for a couple of years now. I would still like to be lost at sea to get such a break. (Provided I can easily survive that.)
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I think the point is that the reality of the world is currently shit and it sucks so it was nice to forget about that for a bit. It wasn't that he had some trauma he could ignore.
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It's not a break from reality. It IS reality. It's just that human nests - any conquered space of nature, be it urban or rural - has a habit of becoming a panopticon torture complex that we don't very much enjoy being in
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