What's the longest you have stayed inside for ?

[Sitonyourdressmavis]

I've just come out of a very stressful work situation and now have 2 weeks annual leave. I've spent a week of it already and I haven't been out of the house! I feel like I'm in hibernation mode. I live alone and am perfectly happy ,but wondering when I'm going to get cabin fever...
What's the longest you've stayed in for?

48 hrs maybe. At the very most

Probably around a week, if the weather was shit.

About a week after I had my third baby. I had pnd with my first two and i think it's partly because I didn't let myself rest and recover properly.

I'm normally an out and about every day type so it has surprised me how much I've been happy inside

3-4 days at most as even when I'm hibernating I take myself off for a walk or get out in my garden. When I'm exhausted I'm pretty happy just being at home on my own with minimal plans.

4 weeks when I had hypermesis. I spent the whole time lying down with my head in a bucket. My hair rubbed off on one side. It was awful

About 5 weeks after an injury limited my mobility.

Five weeks.....bad weather and agrophobia

Thus is interesting as I've been incredibly stressed at work and this rest feels like when you go on a fly and flop holiday and just lie there for a week. I do feel like my body and mind needs it

God you poor thing

Gosh that sounds really unhealthy. Even if I’m ill I’d try and get outside after a few days
. Unless it was flu and I couldn’t move from bed.

No. You know what? It feels really healthy. I'm pottering etc not just lying there

17 weeks over lock down. Perfectly happy, no reason to go out. No MH issues. Obviously sat outside as nice weather but literally never outside of house boundary.
Apparently very weird behaviour but I was honestly fine. These days (ie no restrictions) I can easily do 5 days without leaving the house.
Currently it’s Wednesday 5pm. Last time I was out was last Friday.
Obviously I have a really shit step count. However I’ve also never had Covid 🫣🤣

If you feel like you need it, then you probably do. Listen to your mind and body.

It's a bit cold and wet, but if you get any dry spells, can you take a cup of tea into the garden and commune with nature for 15 mins?

When it gets a bit lighter in the mornings I usually have my first cuppa of the morning sitting on the patio in my dressing gown.

I think we managed five days when we had COVID during the first week of the first lockdown - but we did at least have a balcony to stand on/pace up and down. I think I cracked on day six and went for a walk.

Awful, though, I hate being cooped up indoors!

After my daughter’s funeral on 24 November last year I didn’t go out again until 21 December when we flew out of the country to escape the UK Christmas. And I’ve only been out once a week this year - to go to her grave. And once to get a tattoo. I have basically just stopped going out. I do see people. Quite a lot. But only at home. Before that I went out pretty much every day. For work and for socialising. I was busy and sociable and happy. The longest before that without would have been a week in 2022 when I was really ill with Covid.

I have been out in my garden a little bit and I have had my patio door open too. Also done the bins, cleaned the car out etc .

I’m sorry to hear you lost your daughter. Virtual hugs x

Sometimes I love spending all weekend pottering around indoors, at least I do at this time of year when the weather isn't great. During the week I'm working, then I'll do the grocery shopping on Friday evening then not emerge from the house until Monday morning. So I suppose around 48 hours or so. I don't often get the chance to do it though, I usually get dragged out for some reason or other, but it's nice when I can manage it.

I am disabled (long covid - such fun) and have very poor mobility. Some weeks the only thing I leave the house for is knitting group, and I can go from arriving home from that at 12.30 on Monday, to leaving for the next week’s group at 9.30am the following Monday.

If I’m more unwell than normal, or if knitting group is cancelled for some reason, I can go more than a week without going out. I don’t even have enough mobility for a wander round the garden at the moment.

@LadyMacbethWasFierce I’m so sorry for your loss and can completely understand the not leaving the house thing

Other than when ill I think very occasionally one day if work is insane, but even then I would try and go out even just for a stroll late at night.
@LadyMacbethWasFierce So sorry 😥

I had to stay in hospital for 5 or 6 days after the birth of my first child. That's definitely the longest.

Nearly 5 months... Covid lockdown
My specialists told me not to even go to the bin

I’m disabled and I often don’t leave the house unless it’s for medical appointments, so every few weeks.