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| author | futuremind |
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| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["psychology","life"],"appCategory":"psychology","appTitle":"Why is solitary confinement bad for your mental health?","appBody":"<p>I'm not proud to admit this, but I am probably one of the most suitable individuals on the Steem blockchain to answer this question, due to the fact that I once spent 6 months in solitary confinement, as a result of a jail fight, that ended badly for the attacker (<em>after unconvincingly telling the jail guards a PTSD laden Veteran should not be in general population). </em></p>\n<p>As a result of my self defense ending in a hospitalization, they were prepared to finally move me out of general population, to a cozy cell, all by myself, for 6 months. </p>\n<p>I do not feel it was bad for my mental health, any more so, than being confined to a facility. Quite the opposite for me. I will explain how I dealt with my time in solitary. </p>\n<ul>\n <li>Read ton's of books. (fortunately the guards liked me, and made this exception. This was partly due to my intelligence, and the guards lack of intelligence. I was able to manipulate them a bit to get my way, and I don't feel bad about it. It was a survival tactic in there.)</li>\n <li>Exercised as much as possible! I regulated a specific work out routine, to keep me busy, and healthy physically.</li>\n <li>I would sing songs regularly to enhance my mood, and make others think I was crazy. I purposely exhibited eccentric behaviors to keep people confused, as a tactic to be left alone. </li>\n <li>I created memory games. Like counting cracks in walls, trying to remember how many cracks there were, ect.</li>\n <li>I played chess with myself on paper to stay sharp mentally.</li>\n <li>I kept a journal.</li>\n <li>I studied law, when I was allotted \"law library time\".</li>\n <li>Meditation</li>\n</ul>\n<p>There may be a couple of things I am not remembering as well, but this was pretty much how I dealt with it. It was not easy by any means, but the mind is powerful. I was able to meditate and stay busy in cell, for 6 months. There was never a moment of boredom. I would create entertainment, and cognition.</p>\n<p>The important aspect here is the insight I had into myself, and the situation. I really did feel hopeless at times, and felt as though it would never end, but I knew it would, so long as I could utilize my intelligence to maintain more friends than enemies. I knew this was an important factor. </p>\n<p>I am a highly introverted person according to the Briggs/Myers personality test. INFJ, which accounts for a very small percentage of people. As an introvert. I am content while I am alone, and actually function better. I can only deal with people in small doses. To live in an environment like this is pure torture for someone like me. I have not gone back to jail since. Introverts learn their lessons quickly. I am terrified to even consider ever going through this again. </p>\n<p>Why am I talking about introversion?</p>\n<p>Because this is a major factor in how an individual will deal with such a setting. I was actually much more comfortable in confinement, than general population. When the 6 months was complete, I actually begged the guards to let me stay in confinement! Yes, it sounds insane, but I felt much safer, and knew that the variables to catastrophe were significantly reduced by my confinement. </p>\n<p>The man I injured came close to death. This reaction happened because I was in fear for my life, and suffering from extreme PTSD. I had expressed this danger and concern, and it went ignored. If the man would have died, I would be serving a life sentence. I had 6 long months to consider this, and I didn't want these variables present if I could control my locale. </p>\n<p>I started thinking of creative ways to go back to confinement without hurting anyone, or causing too much trouble, but they knew what I was up to, and told me it was not happening. I succumbed to the idea that I must become a mental chess player, and I made it out of there in one piece. </p>\n<p>An extroverted person would likely have a different story to tell here. </p>\n<p>Whether or not anyone agrees with this, confinement is a traumatizing experience, in my opinion. Some individuals deserve to rot in a cell, some individuals make mistakes and learn from them. I like to believe I am the latter. Having been a hopeless jailed drunk, to an aspiring writer, who is ambitious and productive, it shows that anything is possible if the will is present. We have the ultimate power to change the course of our lives. </p>\n<p>It all starts with a willing decision to change. </p>\n<p>I hope your friends who have dealt with confinement, are better people today as a result of their struggle, and not more damaged than when they went in. </p>\n<p>I hope my answer helps. </p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"p3en26l9x","appParentAuthor":"roloyolo","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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<p>Thanks for taking time to write such a long reply.</p><p>Firstly I'd like to say that I have a huge heart for people who have been in jail, I don't really know why, perhaps coz I was also involved in"certain things" myself, but never got arrested. I can't say the same for the people that I worked with. Some of them are in and out of jail. I have a job now that earns enough money that I don't have to do those "certain things" anymore.</p><p>I got into programming and hacking at an early age and it has saved me from going into a life of illegal activity.</p><p>I have a few friends who have been in solitary, but two of my friends stand out. The two friends were in and out of solitary regularly because they were very active gang members at some point in time. All of this happened during apartheid and it seemed to have affect the older of the two friends the most, he is homeless today and spends his time smoking weed and recycling trash and he gets lots of stuff from people for free, he is a really good worker, just sometimes has moments where his mind can trip out a bit and has random angry outbursts.</p><p>I think being in solitary confinement as much as he was made him so good at surviving that he finds a life on the street good enough or he finds it makes him feel content. I feel sorry for him and I wish I could help him.</p><p>My other friend told me they used to get beat up close to dead and then put in solitary confinement with nothing but a small Bible to read. He said doesn't matter who you were you had no choice, but to read that Bible unless you wanted to risk losing your mind. He also mentioned that they used to work out all the time to help the time pass by. </p>
| author | roloyolo |
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| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["psychology","life"],"appCategory":"psychology","appBody":"<p>Thanks for taking time to write such a long reply.</p><p>Firstly I'd like to say that I have a huge heart for people who have been in jail, I don't really know why, perhaps coz I was also involved in\"certain things\" myself, but never got arrested. I can't say the same for the people that I worked with. Some of them are in and out of jail. I have a job now that earns enough money that I don't have to do those \"certain things\" anymore.</p><p>I got into programming and hacking at an early age and it has saved me from going into a life of illegal activity.</p><p>I have a few friends who have been in solitary, but two of my friends stand out. The two friends were in and out of solitary regularly because they were very active gang members at some point in time. All of this happened during apartheid and it seemed to have affect the older of the two friends the most, he is homeless today and spends his time smoking weed and recycling trash and he gets lots of stuff from people for free, he is a really good worker, just sometimes has moments where his mind can trip out a bit and has random angry outbursts.</p><p>I think being in solitary confinement as much as he was made him so good at surviving that he finds a life on the street good enough or he finds it makes him feel content. I feel sorry for him and I wish I could help him.</p><p>My other friend told me they used to get beat up close to dead and then put in solitary confinement with nothing but a small Bible to read. He said doesn't matter who you were you had no choice, but to read that Bible unless you wanted to risk losing your mind. He also mentioned that they used to work out all the time to help the time pass by. </p>","appDepth":3,"appParentPermlink":"pkb3zhllx","appParentAuthor":"futuremind","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"comment"}" |
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<p>One more thing. I have nobody but God to thank that I never got caught. </p><p>Jail is only one bad decision away and I'm very lucky. </p><p>One thing that both my friends struggle with is they both struggle to shake the fact that they have been in jail cause they are covered with prison tattoos and are constantly treated like shit by people judge them for their appearance and who judge them for the fact that they've been in jail.</p><p>There are two kinds of people: people who go to jail and don't want to go back and people who go to jail and can't help themselves from going back to jail.</p><p>Fortunately my two friends have no intention of going to jail again and they always warn me to stay far away from jail. </p>
| author | roloyolo |
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| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["psychology","life"],"appCategory":"psychology","appBody":"<p>One more thing. I have nobody but God to thank that I never got caught. </p><p>Jail is only one bad decision away and I'm very lucky. </p><p>One thing that both my friends struggle with is they both struggle to shake the fact that they have been in jail cause they are covered with prison tattoos and are constantly treated like shit by people judge them for their appearance and who judge them for the fact that they've been in jail.</p><p>There are two kinds of people: people who go to jail and don't want to go back and people who go to jail and can't help themselves from going back to jail.</p><p>Fortunately my two friends have no intention of going to jail again and they always warn me to stay far away from jail. </p>","appDepth":5,"appParentPermlink":"fke4uf2l5","appParentAuthor":"roloyolo","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"comment"}" |
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