What's the longest you have stayed inside for ?

Nine weeks with covid. I was in bed. Would have been fine not waking up by the end. Apart from that, probably four days after particularly stressful deadlines when I needed to sleep and relax.

I was signed off with Covid and exhaustion at the beginning of the year and didn't leave the house for 10 days.

I'd have happily gone longer tbh!

I mean you’re making a lot of assumptions about me here: I haven’t said anything about Buddhist retreats, that’s you jumping to conclusions which say more about you than they do about me. But in point of fact a Buddhist retreat wouldn’t require you to be indoors…

By the by. I still think under normal circumstances and excluding illness, wanting to spend all your life inside points to a not particularly healthy mindset. We will have to agree to disagree on this. It certainly wouldn’t work for me.

3 days after getting home following a c section with baby 2. I was climbing the walls

But if you're happy and you've needed the rest then why not? I think your body does a good job of telling you what you need on the whole.

The guilt is weird isn't it? I realised a few years ago that I was inadvertently passing this idea that you always need to be at something on to my daughter and had to actively slow it down. I've never been one for sitting in my pyjamas, vegging in front of the TV etc, or at least not as more than a very rare thing. My daughter does like hanging about he house, just pottering about in her oodie, so it's been a bit of a change for me trying to figure out where this guilt comes from and the idea that I always need to be 'on' and doing.

9 days after my butt surgery last year. Couldn't face it, not even being in the garden. Barely left the house in the first three weeks tbh.

I had a great time at home for nearly 2 months when I broke my foot. My house has steps at each door and I cant use crutches so there was no way I was even attempting it.
I was quite active inside -could manage the stairs inside fine (although not very gracefully ) and managed to work out how to hang washing on a gate fold airer and get it outside in the sun without going over the threshold myself.
Like a PP though I did have visitors during this time and ,crucially , made good use of social media to keep in touch with friends and family.

Erm, I dropped my son off at the ferry on 31st December, so since then, I guess.

Apart from when I've been ill, about a week, at Christmas 2020. My daughter was away with her dad and I was off work and just spent the week watching TV, sewing, having baths, and ordering food in. It was fairly blissful but I also felt quite slovenly as I do like to get out even if just for a walk. When I had my daughter I walked too far about a week after her birth (c section) and learned a wee lesson about taking it easy! That was pretty painful for a good few days after so didn't go out much then.

I’ve not left my house since early January.

About 2 weeks when I had Covid.

2 years give or take. I might have gone out to the garden, but can't remember.

I don’t agree, and neither does the science or research. If OP is staying at home because they enjoy it (not because of fear or anxiety) then it’s totally healthy.

It’s very strange that you associate being at home with ‘slobbing out’ - People can be incredibly active and exercise at home. Fresh air can be gained in a garden or reading with the windows open.

It’s a real western/ableist perspective you have. It’s strange how middle class people in the UK would consider their neighbour a ‘slob’ for not going out … but consider a Buddhist silent retreat for months or more, to be an excellent journey for ‘finding yourself’ 😂

Enjoy it, OP. You've spent a long time wishing you could be at home. Now you are, and you can count your blessings. It won't be for ever.

7 weeks. During covid. I didn’t even go into the garden.

I was not in the best of mental health. But at the time I was fine not to go out.

@WorkHardPlay

Whatever you do OP - don’t listen to those who tell you that it’s unhealthy/strange. Many of these posters have children/live with a partner, which of course changes things.

Hmmm… Fine every now and then, everyone likes to slob out sometimes but there’s loads of evidence of the health benefits of fresh air and exercise. I have to say I don’t think its healthy to not want to go outdoors. It often goes hand in hand with agoraphobia and anxiety.

Also when I had hyperemesis. I can't remember how long exactly as it's a blur, but weeks and weeks. I remember when I started feeling better going on a practise walk to the shop 10 minutes up the road as I hadn't been out in so long I'd become agoraphobic. I went out more in covid times than I did in early pregnancy!

For the last twenty odd years I've had dogs, so probably about two hours... sigh.

About a month, it was during uni and I suffered a bit of a mental breakdown and wouldn’t go outside.

Maybe a couple of days at most when ill. I really feel the need to walk, even if the weather is shite. Haven't been out today as its been raining heavily and I'm feeling a bit of a cold coming on, stuffy and scratchy throat! Will have to go out tomorrow though or I really will get cabin fever!

Longest is probably about 10 days. I haven't left the house since last Wednesday, so 8 days so far. I WFH, the kids have been taking the dog out and I get my shopping delivered. Weather is crap so...

About twenty-four hours. I get cabin fever very easily!

Around 2 weeks when I tore a ligament in my knee and dislocated my kneecap. I was in plaster from arse to ankle and not allowed out of bed for a fortnight. I was absolutely stir crazy.

I didn't leave the house for 7-10 days when I had campylobacter. I couldn't risk being more than a few paces from the toilet!

A little bit over two years is probably the longest single period. No balcony or garden, so properly inside.

Not even a day apart from a hospital stay when I gave birth 25 years ago. I would go absolutely insane