Sounds more like a break from a crushing capitalist system.
this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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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.
Therapy can be pretty good at understanding you are not a walking problem, which is where many people are at
But it can't help with competition- and capitalism- induced suffering :(
As a man who both goes to therapy and enjoys wandering in the back country for no purpose but to be in nature, they’re two useful actions that meet different needs. A therapist one trusts can meet the need of putting your struggles into words, even your most troubling ones that you are embarrassed to share with the people closest to you, or possibly involve those close to you but need help figuring out how to address with them.
Wandering through nature alone is perspective, and disconnection from the noise of humanity. Nature is vast, whether endless ocean to the horizon or never ending mountain ranges as far as you can see. The sound of waves or birds, insects, and a river are quiet compared to the hum of electricity, cars, machines, and people we’re so inundated with that we forget it’s unnatural until we’re away from it. Sense of smell might be our weakest sense but in nature you realize how unclean what we breathe daily really is.
Also, let’s not pretend that escaping civilization and embracing the isolation of nature is something only men enjoy.
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Therapy doesn't fix reality.
I mean for some it can help them accept and process reality a little better.
it is no sign of good health to be properly adapted to a profoundly sick society
It helps to survive. You can still critizice the fucked system while suffering less from it. Often that's the best one can do.
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It should help with developing a more healthy perception of reality, isn't that enough?
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.
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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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Tbh that does sound kind of nice right about now.
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!
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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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.
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.
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.
I know that I have a lot of problems. A therapy bill will just be one more and it’s not going to undo the previous problems.
Understanding how and why I’m fucked up is not the same as not being fucked up.
There are different kinds of therapy. Understanding what's wrong is one thing anf can help to get along with issues. But there is also therapy that focuses on changing your behavior etc
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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.
Yes...but have you tried a 29 day, 696 hour vacation on a boat?
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I don't think it's just as simple as going to therapy but I've been in therapy for years and I'm the happiest I've ever been. I really got to work through stuff that I had been dealing with for years. I think it's hard to figure it out on your own, but I don't think a therapist is the only thing you need.
Just do AI therapy!
It will tell you you're great, and you won't have to risk any emotional vulnerability with a real person!
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I'm in therapy and I'd still like a month away on a remotely uninhabited island.
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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
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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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
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