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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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 spent seven weeks and three days in hospital 150 miles from home at the end of 2023. I had a hysterectomy due to cancer. My bowel was perforated during surgery and I ended up with sepsis. It was a nightmare.

I genuinely have absolutely no idea.

Clearly it's not something I consciously keep a tally of. I'm surprised so many people do.

I'm very happy to stay in, but most of my life I've had a dog so I get out most days I guess.

8 days when I had Covid in January 2021. I wasn’t even ill but had to test twice a week for work and it came up positive.

8 weeks in hospital with sepsis.

4 months after a mental breakdown and having my beloved cat pts.

God that sounds horrendous. I hope you're fully healed x

I think the most I’ve ever been stuck inside for is around 48 hours, even after being discharged from hospital with Covid / pneumonia / other health issues I’ve had (I’m disabled and have lots of chronic and complex health needs). I was in the shielding group during Covid and was meant to stay inside non stop but basically just went on local walks (I live rurally) as couldn’t stand being in all the time. I absolutely hate it. That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy relaxing at home as well, I enjoy watching tv and reading and whatever else but I absolutely have to get out for an hour or so at least everyday for a walk / drive / to do something otherwise I feel very miserable.

During covid I'd stay in for weeks at a time. I didn't actually mind it that much. I continued working online so was busy and occupied. If it hadn't been for the DC, I would have been fine but they were bouncing off the walls with cabin fever.

Around 10 days. The air quality was terrible due to wildfires and the moment I’d poke my nose out my throat would get scratchy.

Regularly for months at a time.
This is disability if you have no family support.

9 months

I was on the shielding list during lockdown as well as my late OH. We only left the house for medical appointments for 4 years in total (March 2020 to his death in March 2024) but the longest unbroken stretch was 9 months.

He died of the first respiratory infection he caught so I don't regret it. We managed to buy him an extra 4 years of life and they were happy years full of love and laughter despite being stuck inside. We were homebodies to start with so not much changed except people visited us for social things (after lockdowns fully ended) instead of meeting up at restaurants etc.

I have mobility issues and can only get in or out of the house with help. I haven't actually been outside since 22/1.

mind you, given that it's rained pretty much everyday, why would anyone want to?

I do get my five thousand steps a day in though as I use a walking machine to make sure my leg muscles don't get any worse.

I could probably do the rest of my life to be fair! As long as I can walk the animal and get out in the garden for fresh air and to feel the sun on my face - if we ever get any.

If staying in for so long is unusal for you, it must be your body/mind telling you something. Stay in as long as you want. So long as you dont feel you've wasted your leave at the end of it, then do as you please.🤷‍♀️ sounds blissful btw

I’ve never counted but I’m happy at home and don’t work so stay in as much as family life allows.
DH is someone who needs to go out and I don’t understand that urgency to be out at all.
Don’t get me wrong I love visiting different places and enjoy days out but find it quite draining and am glad to be home.

My SIL stayed in the house ( no going out of the front door, no going into the back garden) for TWO YEARS during and after Covid. If the university she is an administrator for hadn't made everyone return go the office I dare say she would still be there. They had food deliveries, my brother went out ( to stay sane) and picked up anything they needed. She didn't see a dentist, get a haircut, mooch, have a coffee or lunch in the 'eat out to help out' time in all that time. It was a major event when my brother persuaded her to sit on a chair on the back patio 6 inches from the open back door.