re: How many days can you go cut off from human interaction?

If it wasn't for sex I would say a lifetime.

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TV doesn't count.

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Oh I disagree. It provides you outside perspective to contemplate with. It may be one way, but its still a form of social interaction. The television is trying to make you feel a certain way. It's also trying to get you to watch and get ratings and cash from you.

That would keep you more sane for longer. My situation puts you on an abandoned Island that would have food to keep you nourished and nothing else.

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Think of history and times before all this technology. There were plenty of times where people had to go more than a week without seeing people. It's impractical to think they were all cracking. A week is hardly any travel time if you are walking or riding a horse for example. A lot depends on an individual's personality, but a week really isn't much time. It's when you are looking at a few months alone that I'm guessing mental health becomes an issue.

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I agree with you 100% here. Our ancestors could have taken isolation for a much longer period of time than we could. I don't think you have experienced much time at all in the same isolation. Unless you like camping alone, I doubt you've gone more than a few hours without it (save sleep of course).

Our minds are now wired in a different way than our ancestors were because of this. I think our personalities are now directly intertwined to being connected to other people. This wasn't the case for many people before ideas spread rapidly. Once they did and you connect yourself to these spreading ideas of others, then if you can't interact with them, it will feel like your soul has been torn apart. Their souls were already whole without this though.

I could go a very, very long time. Decades. I often think about the pilot episode of Last Man on Earth when it was just him. I already go days without seeing people and am just fine with it. I don't need another human at all and there is no person on earth I couldn't walk away from forever.

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You may not need to chat with people, but if I took all those outside sources from you, I think everyone would break quickly. 

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Agreed.

I have some very extrovert buddies that if I tried to sustain their levels of socialization I would crack in a day and a half.

I see nothing sad or wrong with it. I'm perfectly content.

Of course you feel that way. You can't even take care of a dog. Isolation would be perfect for you.

Depends on where Im at. If Im on the middle of the Sierra Nevada and have all the supplies I need, i would think i could go quite a while. Like 3-6 months before i would get lonely.

I've taken care of my dog for over 13 years out of a strong sense of duty. I'm perfectly capable and have done so. I just don't enjoy it or wish to pay for unnecessary tests or vaccinations,

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I'd see them again in heaven eventually.

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Lets say you're a Christian, then that's still not a guarantee. What if they go to hell? You can't say that for a fact.

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I lost my mom over 10 years ago. Any permanent attachment I had to people died with her.

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I'm very sorry you feel that way. I sincerely hope you're able to find someone else to love, whether romantically or platonically. No one should ever have to face the world alone.

I appreciate your concern. Truly I do. But don't worry about me. As sad as it was to lose my mom, I did not even cry at her funeral. I'm just not an overly emotional guy or someone who needs anything outside of myself.