You have been accepted for an experiment: you must stay in a room with nothing but bed/toilet/food/water and no human contact for one month. If you succeed for the whole month without giving up, you get $5,000,000. Do you accept? And what are your coping strategies to avoid mental breakdown?

100%. I have major depressive disorder, and I’ve spent months in my life trying to have this same thing. When my wife tried to get me to talk, I would book a hotel room. My natural inclination is to isolate and use sleep as an escape.

I do listen to podcasts often so I’d miss them. Hopefully I get to take my meds with me, I would stop my anti depressants because they just make me want to talk to people a little bit more and divide my sleeping pills up so I could try to stay as constantly sleepy as possible and my sedatives in the middle. Basically I’d want to be as removed from the world as possible, which, is exactly my mental state.

I would love the opportunity. I’d stop having people on my back about getting out of the bed everyday. My therapist wouldn’t be there to encourage me to take action in my life.

It sounds amazing. I also saw the bidet option. I love bidets and they are a favorite luxury so I’d definitely spend a lot of time on the toilet.

Or there was one time I took all of my Xanax hoping to die and just lost a week and a half, so if I had my meds I that could work as well. I’d probably do that more often except I hate temporary holds in the psych ward.

Just FYI, I’m ok, in case I worried anyone. I go to group therapy three times a week, therapist twice a week, and my psychiatrist weekly. I’m getting the help I need and this is the best my life has gone in years. I just think my particular challenges could make this the easiest 5M ever. I’d probably do it for 50k.

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