Honestly if I had the means and skills to survive that semi-comfortably, I'd be down for making that an annual tradition.
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I think it's not quite the same if you decided it, and can leave or connect to the internet at any moment.
I’ve always wanted to sail.
My best friend spent a week in the hospital with a life-threatening condition. Besides the almost dying part, it was the most relaxing and life-refocusing event of their adult life and they're grateful to have experienced it. A forced reset and some compulsory solitude can be a blessing sometimes.
Were I to ever go to prison, I think I would personally love to get some solitary confinement time.
Solitude? Damn, are your hospitals made out of gold as well?
If you're unlucky over here you get up to 7 other patiens in the same, unventilated room. Including patients who have air-transmittable infections because why not?
Air conditioning doesn't exist in hospitals either by the way. That's a luxury hospitals aren't obligated to (and as such never) provide. Enjoy dehydrating in 30°C+ rooms.
I'd much rather just stay in solitude in my home for a week.
Where I live, hospitals are way better than this. My dad got slashed by a stingray in the ankle and was treated and admitted to a two bed room with air conditioning, circulation, TVs, and a whole host of other stuff, all for free.
Which country do you live in by chance? I'm in Australia, so Medicare's pretty solid here, I'm quite curious on how it works over there.
Germany.
8 patients per room is really the upper legal limit (as anything more is considered intolerable) and exceedingly rare but having at least one other patient in the same room is the default. Even if single rooms are available, hospitals prefer to put you into rooms with other people as they offer single patient rooms for ~120€/day and dual patient rooms for ~70€/day.
When I was in the hospital for a pretty severe gastrointestinal infection as a child, I had one bed neighbor with a severe cough which I obviously caught after the stay. It wasn't as severe but pretty annoying nonetheless.
TVs generally exist for free but usually only one per room so you'll have to negotiate with your roommates. WiFi, if existant, definitely costs money and will have early 2000's speed.
In general, hospital stays have roughly the same standard as in the 70's or 80's as there hasn't been noteworthy investment ever since. Anything considered a luxury and unnecessary for treatment will likely not be provided for free.
over here you get up to 7 other patiens in the same, unventilated room. Including patients who have air-transmittable infections
That's a surprisingly apt description of Hell, at least for me.
My friend was at a much nicer hospital, albeit they didn't see anything made of gold. They had their own room. It certainly wasn't paradise; I think the recovery from sepsis gave them a clarity of mind and purpose that transcended the casual discomforts. Plus they were medevac'd 400km from their home, so they were more socially isolated than normal. Sort of like a monastic experience? Thankfully they have excellent insurance, so the medical costs weren't a giant concern like they would be for most people in the US, which probably would have been mentally debilitating otherwise.
Therapy, trying to make you seem ok with the absolute bullshit you have to deal with which you know is wrong.
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therapy might get covered but costs money somewhere along the way. it might also lose you a job for 'unrelated' reasons.
you presumably get paid while lost at sea if you are part of the crew
If things didn't get bad, I could absolutely see myself saying the same thing.
Here’s my thing with therapy. I know the issue, i know what’s wrong with me, and I know what I’m supposed to do to fix it, i just don’t. I can’t see how therapy will help beyond what I’ve got
You can talk about why you dont want to fix it. Maybe there's something there. Sometimes there's just a hump you need to get over and wont unless you push yourself.
If not you can kind of live in that space for a while and see if the barrier is even real in the first place.
I think I'd rather be lost at sea than be anywhere near any portion of our current civilization.
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So jelly 😌
Depends on which is cheaper tbh.
Have you tried going to therapy?
Of course I've tried going to, there's a sea.
hey we need a rest from capitalism and zoom meetings.
Would pay to "get lost at sea for 29 days".
As someone in n therapy. Sure, yes. Its not great.
I just go camping or backpacking out of data range. But his way works too.
Is this the guy who fell off a boat and claimed he built a raft and ate a stick and befriended a dolphin or something? There was a tumblr post about this a while back that was quite funny, there were a lot of inconsistencies in the guys story.