Going it alone...

Is it possible to avoid solipsism if you feel like you are without a day-to-day interpersonal support network. Wont several years of depression and isolation lead to eventual self-absorption? With no significantly satisfying day-to-day social interaction, what is to stop you from drifting into solipsism?

As for me personally, I've gotten much better at recognizing the beauty in all places. I prefer Northern climates but the desert has its charms and I live close to the SoCal "paradise" climates. I think most of my cognitive hangups are social/cultural in nature. Living in suburban Southern California has been a huge part of my life thus far (16/26 yrs), and its been a rather bleak, arid, sterile sort of experience. Los Angeles is the source of toxic globalized McWorld "Hills" and "OC" social materialist culture, which is then disseminated through mainstream media across the globe. San Diego is a large town, yet is dominated by the military which helps preserve its "square" social conservative (and also socially materialistic) sort of overall culture. In the cultural shadow of these two large cities, in the suburbs 80 miles out, there isn't much hope for day-to-day social nourishment. The pickings are slim in the interpersonal relations department. So, I'm getting much better at being alone, with little to no support. But I feel that there must be a cost, since I drift farther from socially constructed reality each day and with this motion my chances diminish for enjoying the benefits of a shared social experience.