What's the longest you have stayed inside for ?

I know that. I’m talking about the slightly haughty tone that some posters have who are sounding incredulous that not everyone gets out each day.

Well obviously if you’re very ill or incapacitated then you can’t leave the house. Otherwise it’s good to get some fresh air a daylight every day.

Some posters are automatically assuming it is a choice for everyone. For many, many people it is not a choice, nor an option to go out.
All those pronouncing loftily “god, I’d go stir crazy if I was like all these silly people on here who stay at home, hahaha!” are privileged enough to have good enough mental and physical health to “pop out each day”.

Please remember many people cannot leave the house, or only rarely.

10 days while I had to isolate during first lock down nearly killed me
I'm always in and out all day, I can't stay in all day unless really poorly

3 weeks with flu

2 weeks, but that was enforced, hospital stay. If I’m not at work, I’m normally out a couple of times a day, horse, dogs etc.

I absolutely love a day at the weekend where I don't go out and I think I've probably done 2 or 3 in one go before but can't manage much more my husband on the other hand is of the opinion he loves his house so why bother leaving when I finally leave the house at the weekend I can be satisfied in about half an hour out of the house and back again.

@LadyMacbethWasFierce When my DD died I didn’t leave the house for weeks unless I had to so just her funeral, memorial and Doctors appointments as I just couldn’t face the world. I am usually a very sociable, out and about person. It’s whatever it takes to get through the time, love from me to you.

I just find getting out, no matter the weather, perks me up. And it's nice to come back and get cosy. Naturally if was torrential, storm force rain, I'd give it a miss. But not just ordinary rain.

I think we should exclude illness and childbirth, no? Excluding those, I said 48 hrs at the most.

Months during the first lockdown. I guess I did briefly leave to stand in the garden or go to midwife/hospital appointments maybe once a month but that was it. I was about 20 weeks pregnant when it was announced and immediately terrified. Read a few articles about women with Covid dying in childbirth or babies having to be delivered prematurely and just thought nah, I’ll stay inside.

It caused severe depression which took me about two years to get over. Not worth it really.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg0yvdjgn5o

The air inside is stale and there are so many benefits to being outside. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6562165/

You just went about your day with sepsis and broken limbs? I'm assuming you mean broken arms.. but sepsis is a bit of a stretch dude.

I honestly refuse to believe there's anything beneficial about being outside in atrocious winter weather. Exercise yes but if I owned a treadmill and didn't have to go outside to run I would probably spend the entirety of January inside, and I'd feel a lot better for it.

What is healthy about five-degree temperatures and driving rain? God I hate the winter.

I've definitely had "hibernation periods" of around 3-4 weeks where I haven't gone anywhere or seen anyone (very enjoyable they were too) but if you're excluding even going for a run or popping to the shops then it'd have to be because of illness, and I've never been that ill for more than 5 days.

I think it was 2 weeks when we all had Covid and had to isolate, back when that was the guidance. I didn’t mind it but would have been easier if just me and DH rather than kids too.

I might be your preference but staying inside for weeks isn’t healthy. You can’t dress it up. We need light in our eyes, we need fresh air and exercise.

I can’t imagine how may steps people walk inside but can’t be that many. It’s good for our health to be outside.

About 10 days this New Year time, had flu, could get out of bed to the couch after about day 3 ….

but when well there is probably 2/3 days in my whole life when I haven’t been outside and that’ll have been really bad weather. I get really antsy if I haven’t got out. Mostly I try and get out early then I’m a nicer person. But if you want to hibernate I reckon you must need it!

6 days when I had COVID back when you had to isolate, my mental health at that point was so bad I started going for walks each day at 5am. Other than that maybe 48 hrs when I'm really ill. I have horses and go to the stables every day, I am climbing the walls if I am stuck in, it's horrible!

About 4 months during COVID as DH was vulnerable as just had a brain tumour removed and was shielding so I stayed in house as was so worried about getting COVID and passing it on to him.

Months I imagine. I don't get stir crazy in the least. With my depression and anhedonia, there's absolutely nothing about the outside world that I'm interested in.

Probably a week when I was diagnosed with cancer a few days before lockdown. I was told I couldn’t go out as I was at risk of killing myself if I got covid. I live semi rurally. I decided that walking across fields in beautiful sunshine with nobody about was much better for my MH than sitting on the sofa so I did that. I also did a lot of night walking. I can’t be cooped up. There is no way I could have stayed in for the duration the oncologist wanted me to. I am baffled at how many people didn’t leave their houses for months, years even, some still haven't.

Maybe 2 days when ill. Otherwise I get stir crazy if I stay in.

About five weeks, maybe six, right after DC3 was born at the start of a horrific heatwave in the US Midwest decades ago. The air quality was atrocious. We all stayed in and ran the AC 24/7.