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 think the complete opposite , this won't happen for me due to other family in the house but at the moment i would really gain mental and physical rest by doing this.

As a 7 year old I had a few months in hospital, and they wheeled our beds outside when the weather was good. But I was home for a month or so in an armpit to toe hip spica frame so didn’t leave the house from arrival by ambulance until back to hospital in the back of a neighbours estate car 4-5 weeks later. They had to tip me sideways to get me through the front door!

2 years due to agoraphobia in my early 20’s. I was very unwell. Worked so hard to pull myself out of it & turned my life around.

I live alone - or while my DD is at uni. My dog died last month so no longer need to get out daily for walks. The weather has been crap so I can stay at home easily for four or five days. Online shopping makes this easy too. Not sure it’s a good thing to go longer than that as I can get too inside my head. But as you normally have a busy schedule a week or more inside is fine!

We were allowed outside during lockdown. It wasn’t Spain!

Did you get everything delivered ? What about fruit and veg ? Like PP 48 hrs is a long time for me. I like to get out everyday.

I dont remember the law saying we had to stay inside during lockdown? You could go out to exercise. I did a lot of walking/ running. Took the kids out to exercise, took the dog out for walks….

Hardly ever - I walk every day and I can’t bear to be stuck indoors. I would have to be really ill to stay inside for longer than a day.

I've been known to regularly go for several months on end without ever crossing the threshold. This is partly because I like my own company, actually, I prefer it to spending time with anyone else, plus I have physical disabilities, so sometimes it is actually difficult to drag myself out.
I'm up to 25 days in my current stint, but this is due to a really bad reaction to the flu jab. I've been totally knocked off my feet, almost as bad as if I'd actually had the flu.
One year, about 20yrs ago, I forgot to have the jab, got the flu and I was flat out for 37 days, but I've never had a reaction like this to any of my other 24 flu jabs I've had over the past 25yrs, it's usually a dead arm for an hour or two at worst.

4 days when I had flu. That aside, 24 hours max

As I clarified a couple of posts after my first, I was not counting hospital stays 😅

But there were rules at one point for if you had tested positive, or even, I recall, if you had been in contact with someone else who was positive, you had to stay at home for 10 days. Also there were quite a few people with underlying illness who were advised to ‘shield’. It makes sense that for most people their longest period of being at home was during this time.

5 months in 2020
My daughter was deemed clinically vulnerable and our whole house was on shielding as a result

The first one seemed easier that the second and third bit is likely where ive developed anxiety around people from

Sometimes. But it can also go hand in hand with chronic pain/fatigue issues. Sometimes the energy battery just drains completely, and a longer period of rest is needed, in my experience (unfortunately) anyway.

Excluding physical illness and lockdowns, 3 weeks. I have severe depression and anxiety and hate the world at the moment. My mental health is much worse when I have to go out.

Fruit & veg box delivered weekly plus some homegrown bits.
Milkman twice weekly
Grocery delivery fortnightly
Prescriptions delivered by local chemist

8 nights in hospital with my 3rd baby. That’s definitely the longest. At home, since having kids definitely no more than 24hrs tops unless have been unwell, eg 10 days when self isolation for covid was super strict etc.

10 weeks. Only left cos I needed to go to the hospital

I win. 🤣

wouldn’t wish my abusive ex and the shitty time we had in his godforsaken country on my worst enemy.

Probably about 10 days when really ill with covid. It was about 2 weeks of just opening the back door for my 4 dogs a couple of times a day.....the state of the garden was shocking by the end!😂

Usually I might stay in a day if the weather is truly awful but generally I like to get out the house every day.

Can easily be two weeks if having a depressive episode

5 months - when in the grips of a bipolar breakdown.

The whole of lockdown, wasn’t an issue at all.

I believe you, but I already found that being stuck in this country during lockdown was hell, I can't imagine having to spend days and weeks locked up in a house. I know people did, some countries were very strict, but a nightmare.

14 days. Covid quarantine. No access to the outside from the flat. Didn't want to kill the bin/Easter egg/crisps/parcel fairies (Aka my elderly next door neighbour and downstairs neighbour) Preteen and young teen autistic kids in a two bed flat, me sleeping in living room.

Actually reading back I forgot that I was on bed rest for a month with new born due to prolonged bleeding.

You are wisely listening to your body and nesting.
I love to potter and can happily go for days not being out and about.
As you have had a stressful time, taking time out can be hugely restorative.
Also sounds like you are bringing greater order to your surroundings which when you return to work will be of benefit to you.
Just make sure you watch your nutrition and eat well.
Food is medicine.