I do get lonesome when I go for days without talking to anyone. And often, I'll have weeks where I'm just deep in a funk where I have no appetite and sleep too many or too few hours.

So, when I'm in a box.... I don't really know how to get out.

I thought of a couple of snarky remarks....

"With a box cutter".

"Is thsi the same box that holds Schrodinger's cat?"

Seriously though, I am in agreement that most "boxes" are just a state of mind and conditioning. We feel we have no decisions, only because we have closed off the best decisions, to get us out of our boxes. We often don't see our best options because we have been conditioned not to consider them as options. That is why you hear so many times that a person needs to "Think out of the box".

If you feel you are out of options you need to break your rules for "normal" and what you think to be "the right way to act."

I have mentioned here several times about how Durkeim's study of suicide found that people who live under rigid religions are three times as lkely to commit suicide as the general population. These people have closed off options and choices for themselves to a poitn where they feel they are trapped and can't fo on. They need to break out of the sif imposed rigid rules which make them so miserable.

When you find yourself thinking, "I can't do that?" you really need to ask yourself "Why not?" Living though the consequences of breaking the rules is a lto less miserable than being trapped in the box.

That is a hard question to answer with specificity. I have found myself in many boxes or binds over time. In each, I have tried to interpret the situation and what causes and draw up a quick plan of action to resolve the situation to my satisfaction while maintaining my integrity. My exact actions have varied hugely, depending on the situation.

What is the box made of?

Use reverse operations?