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?

😂

People are so precious aren't they? Just because they are under general anaesthesia and getting tens of stiches and they don't go digging a trench in the garden. Snowflakes they are

Hope your head feels better now. 😂

Around 8 months. I have ME and at one point it was so severe I was around 90% bed bound and going downstairs was usually impossible, let alone leaving the house. It's still common for me to be too ill to go out for several days at a time.

I think around 10 days or so . Had flu,so spent around 3/4 days in bed not showering or even washing . Then nearly a week of draging myself out of bed and spending the day on the sofa just watching t.v. . Had company as dh had it as well .

It's fine thanks apart from triple sepsis in my left eyebrow.

You are so right about snowflakes making a fuss. Never heard of anxiety during the good old blitz.

2 weeks in quarantine due to COVID in 2020. Would have lost my mind except for the fact that I felt like absolute shit.

2 weeks when I had flu pre COVID. Probably almost 3 weeks in hospital around DSs premmie birth.

The weather hasn't been great this year and I've not enjoyed walks etc as much as a result. There have certainly been 2 day stretches on my midweek wfh when I've not gone out.

I got covid quarantined in the last bit before the law changed (when you still had to do 11 days)
I didn't have many symptoms other than totally drained. I could just about manage a bath every 3 days without being too exhausted. No taste or smell either. I didn't even really go.downstairs maybe every 2 days (as I had no taste I just ate fruit and drank water and some dry cereal that was all by my bed)
By day 10 I think I had made it downstairs but when I went back to work on day 12 I was so weak!

Well, obviously with sepsis, I was in hospital, not the house, and I flopped outside even there as soon as I could manage, I’m a terrible patient. Broken limbs, very easily, just perhaps rather more slowly or gingerly than usual!

eta I may have misunderstood the question. I was talking about specifically staying within the house, so kind of overlooked hospital stays. Perhaps that gave the wrong impression.

11 days when I had covid. Walking to the bathroom was exhausting, and I spent a lot of time asleep.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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!

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.

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'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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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