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by watwut 2335 days ago
> and all arrangements are made so you don't worry about stuff like food and can fully go into it

Then you have help of people who do arrangements and even complete dependence on them. If you get sick, they will take you to doctor. If you will have mental breakdown, they will take you out.

Being alone as in without "help you when you're sad, desperate, sick" means that if you are sick, you go to store and you cook and you have to pick up kids from school no matter how bad it feels. It means that if your close one dies or you loose job, you are still alone and with no one to talk with.

> where you can stay for a week or month without talking and not knowing other people and just face how it is to be alone

That will not teach you to be alone. Week or month of being alone is like ... nothing. It is comfortable holidays, everything is arranged so that no external event have even possibility to influence you. Even if you lost job during this time, you would not know.

> If they can react consciously I'd expect them not to get into sadness or depression like at all.

Oh they do. And they do go to anger too. And to frustration.

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>If you get sick, they will take you to doctor. If you will have mental breakdown, they will take you out.

They will take you to the doctor but no mental help as this is exactly what you have to learn to handle there.

>Being alone as in without "help you when you're sad, desperate, sick" means that if you are sick, you go to store and you cook and you have to pick up kids from school no matter how bad it feels. It means that if your close one dies or you loose job, you are still alone and with no one to talk with.

So if this happens and you haven't found how to handle loneliness it will be much more devastating than if you have had some similar experience before. I am talking about doing it in a "safe" but still real atmosphere which will develop certain qualities. Of course, real-life staff will be different, but it's better to have some idea of how it is.

>That will not teach you to be alone. Week or month of being alone is like ... nothing. It is comfortable holidays, everything is arranged

This depends on you if month is a holiday for you - go for 1 year. If you don't like comfort - there are places where you have to cook, you have to clean, wash and so on.

>Oh they do. And they do go to anger too. And to frustration.

To me, this means they don't know how to manage their emotions. I don't know what you mean when you say "they all can".