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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)

29 days "lost" at sea, is therapy for all of the external bullshit we deal with every fucking day.

By "we" I mean people in society, not just men. Everyone struggles with making their way in "this world" we built for ourselves. We made it to be this horrible.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I watch some trash reality TV and always find it kind of funny how contestants spend a long amount of time internalizing the stress of the situation the show they agreed to be on is putting on them.

Half of Love Island is “Why did you kiss them?” “Why did you go on a date with that person?” “Why did you break up with me?” Guys it’s a SHOW. The SHOW is making you go through these completely unnatural circumstances!

And then I think about real life and it’s like “why don’t I have energy? why am I so depressed? why can’t I be more productive?” …guys it’s CAPITALISM/SOCIETY. SOCIETY is making you go through these completely unnatural circumstances!

…except of course I didn’t agree to be on this show.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

None of us did.

I didn't get a say in whether or not to be born. I'm just here now and I have to deal with all of this shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

When I was deployed it was nice, I didn't have bullshit to worry about. I did my job, I ate, I took shits, and I slept.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

The environment we created for ourselves takes advantage of our evolution and uses our biology against us.

Food is drowned in sugar to get us addicted. Social media is designed to keep us angry and upset. Entertainment is a recycled polished turd, designed to take no risks and challenge nothing and leave us only with shallow amusement.

We are losing our respect for the profound, our empathy for the other, and our curiosity for the unknown.

We have made a world of numbing poison for ourselves. A 29 day separation sounds like the most powerful “therapy” we could have tbh.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damn, that is well said. This sentence in particular:

We are losing our respect for the profound, our empathy for the other, and our curiosity for the unknown.

is the kind of thing that sounds like an empty platitude when your mind/life is in a bad state, but after a few years of progress and healing I read that line and wish I could adequately express the years of reflection and learning that can be distilled down to such a short statement.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Thanks stranger.

I think a lot about daily life and the systems we’ve built and the way people treat each other and think about existence, and how we’ve changed and over time… or haven’t.

We’re advancing so much faster than we’re evolving.

I think that’s causing problems :/

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i was a camp host for a summer and it was possibly the best summer of my life. no power, no water, no internet, minimal contact with people, cleaning toilets, and spending half of my day in a kayak.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

That sounds like a great way to spend a summer. I wouldn't mind running water but I'd probably learn to appreciate it after not having it for a few months.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

did he have a volleyball with him.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Theraphy, when it works, only solves internal causes of one's pain.

29 days away from present day society, will for a while suspend the external causes of one's pain.

(Which is why the former usually doesn't fully solve everything: the external shit, which often is what indirectly created much of the internal shit via things like trauma and coping mechanisms, is still there and pushing you)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I'm considering hard getting "lost" forever.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I hate how I understand this.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I read this as more "not having to experience the daily news for a month and being horrified".

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh fuck off. Therapy won’t help with… *gestures at everything*

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Agreed. It’s more like “people would rather be lost at sea than live in a modern society”.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair we were breed to be lost at sea/forest/steppe, not live in a modern society. Like that's our natural place to live and die, not a city.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

We’re not homo naledi. We’ve been living in increasingly modern societies forever, and definitely long enough for it to be more natural to us as a species than shitting in bushes and dying of dysentery.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Quit crying. You'll be fine. Don't be such a crybaby. Man up. Put on your big boy pants. Boys don't cry. Boo hoo, gonna cry about it? Gonna cry like a little girl? Be a man. Face your problems like a man. Crying doesn't help anything. Take it like a man. Don't be a baby. You're acting like a girl. Grow a pair. Suck it up and move on.

Why will men do literally anything besides talk about their feelings?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

There's a community here on lemmy to counter that.

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[–] [email protected] 181 points 2 days ago (8 children)

No, we'd rather be lost at sea than have to participate in the broken society that makes people need therapy.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Yes I would, I hate therapy.

[–] zipzoopaboop 45 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Therapy doesn't help much if you have no power over the root cause

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Just goes to show how insane society has become that you'd rather go to therapy than take a 29 day break by being lost at sea.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

"lost at sea"

mf land right over there

????

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Therapy has become the new buzzword to prescribe to any individualistic issue because most people don't know what it is or who its for, they just think it's a silver bullet solution to everything because everybody else says so... but it's not.

Therapy is great for specific people with specific disorders, it's there to help provide these people with solutions and treatments to improve their conditions. It's not meant to be a replacement for a social circle or to fix the problems in your life.

Not to mention that therapy is either expensive or hard to access or the therapist you do get to see are usually not that great. It is very hard and very rare to find a good therapist that's affordable and nearby. Even then, a therapist can only do so much. They're trained to work through common disorders using several established methods, but not much beyond that. Therapists can help you overcome your anxiety, but they can't help you find meaningful relationships.

This is doubly true for men, because a lot of men are facing issues related to finding purpose and meaning in life, and that's something that's beyond the scope of therapy. Maybe these issues could be resolved as a result of treating a disorder, but that's not always the case. The point is that therapy is not a magical solution, and it's not going to solve huge societal problems like men turning their backs on society.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (14 children)

You say men are turning their backs on society. I would argue it's the other way round. Modern society has lots of problems unfortunately, and can be quite hostile especially to men.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think these two things are mutually exclusive

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