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?

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.

@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 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.

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.

3 weeks with flu

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

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.

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.

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.

No. Absolutely not.

As someone who has slogged 3-5 miles every damn day this winter with perhaps 5 days NOT soaked to the skin, just no.

It's fucking miserable. The dog is absolutely sick of it too. I do not feel the better for it. There is fuck all vitamin D benefit from walking in the bloody dark and wet and my MH is not improved by it.....

Agoraphobia. Months and months. Only for doctors appointments that I take diazepam for to get to. I will now go in my garden briefly though.

The whole of the first lockdown as DS was clinically vulnerable. I honestly loved pottering around the house and garden. I have a home gym of sorts so was also getting plenty of exercise. I dont leave the house now unless I have to for appts or to drop teens off wherever they need to be. I go out to see friends maybe once a month. I wfh, have shopping delivered. I love being in my house.

Poor thing. Awful.

Two weeks, just had an ankle replacement 😭, hoping to be upgraded to a boot today and freed😄

Five days when I had Covid. It was awful. I hate staying in. I didn’t even feel ill!

Desperately trying to think of a day I haven't left the house and nope I can't, ever, apart from being very ill but even then I dragged myself for school pickups when I had to.

When not at work, which means leaving the house, when off there's still so much to do, errands to run. Also responsibilities like helping elderly parent, taking DC out, walking the dog.

I do sometimes wonder what it would be like to just stay in for even a whole day and night and it does sound like bliss 🥰

For several days/a week, makes me feel a bit apprehensive about getting used to it too much lol 😆

DH wfh so sometimes doesn't leave the house for days; on computer, uses the garage gym, orders online etc.

I've just not been used to it and would feel a bit strange, I do however relish being able to do it at some point in my life! Xx

I agree, isolating yourself isn't healthy.

Also to add it does depend on whether you have the opportunity to choose to stay in. If you live alone and have no other responsibilities for people outside of it then you can do this.

Needless to say, when you have DC you don't have this respite and/or caring for other family members.

For me, I desperately crave alone time, love my family of course, so take myself off for a weekend to visit friends/air b n b, just so I can sleep in a bit, not be responsible for everything, just myself.

Looking after only yourself gives this opportunity, making your own schedule, no one else to interfere or be responsible for. This doesn't mean you're lazy, it means you have freedom to what you want when you want. Many of us would like to do the same but feel too embarrassed to admit it because you're not rushing about and always too busy to feel validated.

DH and I are both clinically vulnerable, so we barely left the house during the lockdowns. I avoided getting covid until 2023 and it took me a whole year to recover, so I barely left the house during that time too.

During lockdown obviously.

Maybe 48 hours postpartum and over Christmas/new year bank holidays some years.

EDIT: Completely forgot about Covid. 14 days. My god.

2 - 3 days would be the absolute limit for me.

I don't keep count, but it has been months at a time. I have MH issues which can leave me trapped at home.

Probably the eleven days I was testing positive for Covid, when you weren't supposed to go out until you'd had a negative test.