What's the longest you have stayed inside for ?

I've been known to regularly go for several months on end without ever crossing the threshold. This is partly because I like my own company, actually, I prefer it to spending time with anyone else, plus I have physical disabilities, so sometimes it is actually difficult to drag myself out.
I'm up to 25 days in my current stint, but this is due to a really bad reaction to the flu jab. I've been totally knocked off my feet, almost as bad as if I'd actually had the flu.
One year, about 20yrs ago, I forgot to have the jab, got the flu and I was flat out for 37 days, but I've never had a reaction like this to any of my other 24 flu jabs I've had over the past 25yrs, it's usually a dead arm for an hour or two at worst.

Hardly ever - I walk every day and I can’t bear to be stuck indoors. I would have to be really ill to stay inside for longer than a day.

I dont remember the law saying we had to stay inside during lockdown? You could go out to exercise. I did a lot of walking/ running. Took the kids out to exercise, took the dog out for walks….

Did you get everything delivered ? What about fruit and veg ? Like PP 48 hrs is a long time for me. I like to get out everyday.

We were allowed outside during lockdown. It wasn’t Spain!

I live alone - or while my DD is at uni. My dog died last month so no longer need to get out daily for walks. The weather has been crap so I can stay at home easily for four or five days. Online shopping makes this easy too. Not sure it’s a good thing to go longer than that as I can get too inside my head. But as you normally have a busy schedule a week or more inside is fine!

2 years due to agoraphobia in my early 20’s. I was very unwell. Worked so hard to pull myself out of it & turned my life around.

As a 7 year old I had a few months in hospital, and they wheeled our beds outside when the weather was good. But I was home for a month or so in an armpit to toe hip spica frame so didn’t leave the house from arrival by ambulance until back to hospital in the back of a neighbours estate car 4-5 weeks later. They had to tip me sideways to get me through the front door!

I think the complete opposite , this won't happen for me due to other family in the house but at the moment i would really gain mental and physical rest by doing this.

Probably the eleven days I was testing positive for Covid, when you weren't supposed to go out until you'd had a negative test.

I don't keep count, but it has been months at a time. I have MH issues which can leave me trapped at home.

2 - 3 days would be the absolute limit for me.

Maybe 48 hours postpartum and over Christmas/new year bank holidays some years.

EDIT: Completely forgot about Covid. 14 days. My god.

During lockdown obviously.

DH and I are both clinically vulnerable, so we barely left the house during the lockdowns. I avoided getting covid until 2023 and it took me a whole year to recover, so I barely left the house during that time too.

Looking after only yourself gives this opportunity, making your own schedule, no one else to interfere or be responsible for. This doesn't mean you're lazy, it means you have freedom to what you want when you want. Many of us would like to do the same but feel too embarrassed to admit it because you're not rushing about and always too busy to feel validated.

Also to add it does depend on whether you have the opportunity to choose to stay in. If you live alone and have no other responsibilities for people outside of it then you can do this.

Needless to say, when you have DC you don't have this respite and/or caring for other family members.

For me, I desperately crave alone time, love my family of course, so take myself off for a weekend to visit friends/air b n b, just so I can sleep in a bit, not be responsible for everything, just myself.

I agree, isolating yourself isn't healthy.

Desperately trying to think of a day I haven't left the house and nope I can't, ever, apart from being very ill but even then I dragged myself for school pickups when I had to.

When not at work, which means leaving the house, when off there's still so much to do, errands to run. Also responsibilities like helping elderly parent, taking DC out, walking the dog.

I do sometimes wonder what it would be like to just stay in for even a whole day and night and it does sound like bliss 🥰

For several days/a week, makes me feel a bit apprehensive about getting used to it too much lol 😆

DH wfh so sometimes doesn't leave the house for days; on computer, uses the garage gym, orders online etc.

I've just not been used to it and would feel a bit strange, I do however relish being able to do it at some point in my life! Xx

Five days when I had Covid. It was awful. I hate staying in. I didn’t even feel ill!

Two weeks, just had an ankle replacement 😭, hoping to be upgraded to a boot today and freed😄

Poor thing. Awful.

The whole of the first lockdown as DS was clinically vulnerable. I honestly loved pottering around the house and garden. I have a home gym of sorts so was also getting plenty of exercise. I dont leave the house now unless I have to for appts or to drop teens off wherever they need to be. I go out to see friends maybe once a month. I wfh, have shopping delivered. I love being in my house.

Agoraphobia. Months and months. Only for doctors appointments that I take diazepam for to get to. I will now go in my garden briefly though.

No. Absolutely not.

As someone who has slogged 3-5 miles every damn day this winter with perhaps 5 days NOT soaked to the skin, just no.

It's fucking miserable. The dog is absolutely sick of it too. I do not feel the better for it. There is fuck all vitamin D benefit from walking in the bloody dark and wet and my MH is not improved by it.....