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I've spent most of the pandemic in a small room on my own. It occured to me that it's like being in solitary confinement. I found...
A Sourcebook on Solitary Confinement
...which lists the psychological effects of solitary confinement in prison. Let's see if my intuition was accurate by going through the headings.
Yep. I've never had to deal with this before, and didn't really understand it. Now I know how a panic attack feels.
Yes, but... this hasn't got worse. I think it's more frequent, but it hasn't got more severe.
Some. I wouldn't have said this was really an issue, but listed under this heading was poor impulse control, and I've definitely struggled with that.
This is the big one. Here's the subheadings from the sourcebook:
Yep, had all of those to the extent that some days I can do exactly nothing.
Nope. Scary stuff that I'm happy I haven't had to deal with.
I would say no, but this includes "ruminations" and I've had a metric shit ton of those, none of which were helpful or positive.
It could have been a lot worse. I haven't actually been in solitary. I've only had the taster experience, and that was bad enough.