Posted by Medusa on December 29, 2003, at 0:25:34
In reply to Catharsis Anyone?, posted by 8 Miles on December 28, 2003, at 18:04:23
Are you suggesting a trip, or hospitalization, or any form of time off?
I've done both, and I'm going to hold your suggestion up to a brutal test: the time after.
In all but the most extreme cases, both of your proposed solutions (as I understand them) involve contact with other people. And one tends to have set relating styles, and if they caused problems in regular life, they'll cause problems with new people in new places. (Lower stress makes struggles less pronounced, but the patterns remain.)
And when you manage complete solitude, just you and the bears, it doesn't do much to raise the skill levels one needs in mundane life. Solitude is a balm for many ailments, but when it doesn't improve the day-to-day functioning in life that follows, it wasn't the cure.
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