What kind of person can live in total isolation for years without going insane?

How would you define this person?What kind of person can live in total isolation for years without going insane?
Perhaps someone who is insane already. My dad is much like that.What kind of person can live in total isolation for years without going insane?
Supposedly no one can, according to a psychology professor at McKendree College. (I attended the school.)


But, in my unprofessional/uncertified opinion, of all the disorders I learned the person with avoidant personality disorder seems most compatible with total social isolation.
One who found inner peace!
A schizoid or schizotypal personality type. Especially, the former.
are we talking deep space here or like in a desert or something? i mean, there is life everywhere. ';total'; isolation is only available in a handful of remote locations on this globe. most of them very cold.
A whacko!! - sorry, couldn't help myself... I am a people person who loves being alone too.. but, on some level, I feel that life is our own personal pathway to death and that there is no particularly sane way to go about this to begin with - - and therefore, we must all be whackos.. the only question that remains for me, is how to be happily whacko a larger % of the time.. Though, oft heard and never believed when I was younger, being older, now 56, is truly the happiest time of what has been a very good life... call me crazy - or wacko, if you will.. ok, does this answer the question - or at least justify the answer?
What is a Hermit, Alex?
I regret to inform you that all isolation leads to death eventually. Even the most hardcore loner begins to realize how shallow and boring a life is without social variability.





With only one, you will achieve close to perfection, but with two or three or four, the percentage error triples per person. Error is what makes our life interesting. If everyone did the same thing the same way flawlessly, no new ideas would be created and monotony would be there





Inner peace is not the answer. Inner peace alone does not create happiness, although it is necessary to lead a successful social life (irony).





Eventually the human mind begins to lose focus and care in what it is doing. It slowly loses its grip on reality, and goes insane, resulting in death.





Hope I didn't depress anybody... there really wasn't any other way I could put it.
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the kind of person who is shy and doesn't have much friends
You asked 'how would you define this (type of person) ? My definition would be a person who is ' intelligent, spiritual, grounded, one who can 'see' with others overlook, hear / pay attention to what others block out . . . a person who can see interest, beauty, wonder in life itself. A person who can tune in to and 'communicate' with other aspects of life . . . music, nature, visuals. A person who can, in this current state of life, see and appreciate the simple, free pleasure of life. One who can connect with the spiritual, soulful connectedness with the One.
only a self realised yogi can remain in total isolation for eternity.
Yama Bushi is a Japanese Buddhist term that was once used in centuries past but few Buddhist monks do so these days. For a time it was standard for anyone professing to be a true Master in various Buddhist studies including Swordsmanship. Also you might try reading Han Shan, meaning Cold Mountain, who chose renunciation and wrote many poems on the Mountain walls and died there without a trace. In the west there were also hermits but save Thoreau or how ever you spell his name, they were rarely famous!