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You think that, until you've spent a few months, perhaps only a week, in solitary confinement.
by Confusion 13y ago
You think that, until you've spent a few months, perhaps only a week, in solitary confinement.
- rdl 13y agoI spent 6 continuous months on Sealand with one other guy (who I avoided as much as I possibly could, saw him about 3 minutes a day if I didn't correctly time my hallway trip to avoid running into him). Lots of space, and the Internet, though.
- igravious 13y ago> with one other guy so not solitary > Lots of space, and the Internet, though and not (physically or mentally) confinement either --- The only way in which you are an outlier is that you have an inflated sense of your own awesomeness.
- vacri 13y agordl may just be unusual in this sense. As for 3min/day, even solitary prisoners have that minimal contact - bare interaction with guards when let out for exercise, or when the meals come.
- rdl 13y agoYeah, it's not sensory deprivation, which seems reliably able to drive people crazy in hours to a day. It's just a really crappy form of prison (combined with some additional psychological trauma of being solitary). If you're there voluntarily, even if without the ability to easily leave, it's nowhere near as bad. I imagine political prisoners do comparatively well in solitary, too, or the extremely religious, etc. I know from the other side, religiosity and belief in one's cause are the main ways to successfully resist torture or other psychological hardship.
- scotty79 13y agoI've spent few weeks without talking to anyone. I had to go out shopping every two weeks or so but I live in country where even 'hello' at the checkout is optional. I kinda forgot a bit how to talk but apart from that it was pure bliss. I had lots of games and books though.