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Re: How many days can you stay home before getting Cabin Fever?

For me it's more a case of freedom to do as I please....if I know I have the freedom to go out but choose not to then I'm fine...but if there are restrictions (health/weather) then I get antsy if I can't get out.  

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Re: How many days can you stay home before getting Cabin Fever?

I got cabin fever when I worked but since I've been home for so many years, I don't get cabin fever.. I love being home, my husband works from home- he stays on his side of the house and I wander all over, LOL ..  We pretty much come and go as we darn well please, like every few days we go to do errands, recycling, whatever toots our horn.. 

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Re: How many days can you stay home before getting Cabin Fever?


@straykatz wrote:

For me it's more a case of freedom to do as I please....if I know I have the freedom to go out but choose not to then I'm fine...but if there are restrictions (health/weather) then I get antsy if I can't get out.  


@straykatz: That sums up my sentiments very well. It's all psychological. If weather conditions prevent me from getting out, that makes me want to all the more, even if l have nothing important to accomplish.

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Re: How many days can you stay home before getting Cabin Fever?

The last time I left the house (besides going out to get the mail which is at the end of the driveway) was the Saturday after Thanksgiving, now granted I have medical issues, I will get out on Monday for a doctor appointment, it no longer bothers me to be inside so much, it is my life, so I have learned to accept it.

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Re: How many days can you stay home before getting Cabin Fever?

I could easily stay in a week or more and never go out (except to take the dogs out). However, I had a job where I traveled nearly all the time for close to 40 years – some of those years I literally lived on the road with no “home” to go to – just moved from city to city for work. So this is the dessert of my life, to have my home & DH and I just love being around both as much as I possibly can.
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Re: How many days can you stay home before getting Cabin Fever?

After all those years of having to be somewhere almost everyday, I can take a lot of home time. I like getting out, but it not necessary to my mental health, I'm never bored.

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Re: How many days can you stay home before getting Cabin Fever?

Interesting question.  I work from home fulltime, 5 days a week now.  I worked from home all of 2016 but I had the option of going into the office whenever I wanted to.  I went in about once a week.  Now I am a remote worker and I don't have an office or even a desk in the office and there is no reason for me to be there.  Don't get me wrong, I love love love being a remote worker.  But I feel a little disconnected and lonely at times.  I miss the social aspects of the office.  Also, this new job isn't connected to all that "office stuff" so my co-workers and office friends don't email me like they used to. Cabin fever is a good way to phrase it.  However, the good thing is that I can work absolutely anywhere in the world where I have wifi access.  So, when the weather gets nice, I can go visit friends or spend a few hours working at local coffee shop or pop into the library and work.  Have laptop.....will travel...and see other humans.

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Re: How many days can you stay home before getting Cabin Fever?

@house_cat Besides physical I also have been diagnosed with agoraphobia and social phobia, during my really low points in my life, it can be 6 months before I leave the house, in my case social phobia has me fearful of people, it started to really get bad when I went through being bullied as an adult, and now again we have a very stressful family situation that has been happening, when stress enters my life, I tend to shut down and force the world out.

 

And YES, I do see doctors in regard to all my mental and physical diagnosis, and I take enough medication to gag a horse each day, I have been given coping skills and for me the best treatment is one day and sometimes one minute at a time.  

 

I have to go out on Monday for a doctors' appointment and I have already started fearing this appointment, but I will be OK, I will be OK!

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Re: How many days can you stay home before getting Cabin Fever?

I enjoy one day at home but at the end of the second one I am going nuts!

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Re: How many days can you stay home before getting Cabin Fever?

@CareBears, I just revisited a late '70s recording by Ben Sidran, called "Face Your Fears".  I understand.  Look it up on YouTube, or check out the lyrics on line.  Corny?  I think so.  But rings true.

 

 

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