How long do you think you can stay indoors?

dd972

I've no problem with being indoors for days on end, not working at the moment and living somewhere I dislike intensely, nowadays you can shop online etc so there's no need to go out and do it, one can even get a barber to visit if one has to. How long do you think you can do an ''Ecuadorean Embassy'', I reckon a month to six weeks for me. I reckon the introverts can handle this easier.

I can't even stay inside for a full weekend without getting cabin fever.

major bill

Internet = a Month

No Internet = An Hour

The Peanut

major bill wrote: »

Internet = a Month

No Internet = An Hour

That's depressing. I wish I worked outdoors. Far better for my head.

The Moldy Gowl

Really depends on what you're doing.

I could easily go months no bother if I had all my supplies. Coffee/tea/few bag of cans and food. Then maybe a good few long games to play on Xbox and a load of movies or tv shows to watch, internet, boards and reddit to while away the day collecting karma and thanks

Or maybe I'm fooling myself. Never had to do it or be unemployed for a long time so I take my days off for granted.
I would probably get crippling depression after week 2. (I'm assuming you are in no contact with anyone)

john the one

Indefinitely as long as the offo delivers and my ma is still around to run errands for me and the Internet is going.

Easy

Umekichi

At most I'd say a month(gotta get the Child Benefit). The longest I have stayed is a week and a half(I have anxiety problems and my house is my "safe space").

hopgog

On the dole atm so, leave house once a week to collect money do a week shop. As I have little left after the mortgage and bills I usally don't leave till next week.

When the weather was fine like last week I sit in the garden with my tablet and garden a bit. Those days are really nice, sit outside read and smoke a joint with a cup of coffee or a beer. When wet it's mostly indoors so not as nice.

Just Be Yourself

I often wonder how shut ins and loners survived without the internet. Also I guarantee far more men then women will admit to having no problem with staying in all day in this thread.

Macavity.

If I had all my supplies brought to me then a couple of months I guess.

Hitchens

dd972 wrote: »

I've no problem with being indoors for days on end, not working at the moment and living somewhere I dislike intensely, nowadays you can shop online etc so there's no need to go out and do it, one can even get a barber to visit if one has to. How long do you think you can do an ''Ecuadorean Embassy'', I reckon a month to six weeks for me. I reckon the introverts can handle this easier.

Shelton Abbey that bad then? :pac:

Schwiiing

hopgog wrote: »

On the dole atm so, leave house once a week to collect money do a week shop. As I have little left after the mortgage and bills I usally don't leave till next week.

When the weather was fine like last week I sit in the garden with my tablet and garden a bit. Those days are really nice, sit outside read and smoke a joint with a cup of coffee or a beer. When wet it's mostly indoors so not as nice.

Does your dealer invoice you for the weed? :rolleyes:

hopgog

Schwiiing wrote: »

Does your dealer invoice you for the weed? :rolleyes:

Grow my own and brew my own beer, too expensive otherwise

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Did it for ten days once and didn't feel right at all. Couldn't concentrate, sleeping badly, bad mood. Went for a walk and felt like I was mildly tripping, sensory overload of wide open spaces, trees, outdoor sounds and so on was very noticeable. Wouldn't do it again, but wouldn't think anything of doing two or three days, do that regularly.

galljga1

Went outside once.
Didn't like it.

Mister Vain

I did it for a month when I was sick. I felt like I was institutionalized.

The Backwards Man

Stay indoors?!!
Pray speak quietly, every noise you make is exquisite agony to my ears.

Vowel Movement

Not very long. I love the outdoors

BetterThanThou

2 days most I'd say, unless I had some company. Don't have any issue with staying in, but I do have a need to socialize, I'm sure I'd easily be able to go for a few weeks if I had a good friend to keep me company, ample supplies and decent entertainment, but without socialization, I'd get incredibly bored, depressed and lonely after 2 days maximum, I very rarely go even one day without leaving the house for at least an hour or two.

Chevolution

Ages, outdoors is just like an xbox game except with worse graphics.

Mint Aero

Are we allowed out to the shed? that's where my weights are.

eeeee

1 day. I go weird after a day inside so I rarely do it. Have to get out!

madmaggie

Stuck in hospital for a week a few years back. I missed the fresh air, sun on my skin, even the feeling of rain. The dry air conditioned room made me crave the outdoors.

FloatingVoter

....until the beer runs out.

Lau2976

I'd go crazy after day 2. I'm self employed and work from home so I can understand how logistically difficult it can be sometimes to get out but I think it's really important for your own morale to get out nearly every day.

TheBrinch

I leave the house about once a week and it doesn't impact me that much anymore. However some days I will try to find any excuse to leave.

DivingDuck

Some years ago, an injury left me close to bedridden for about three months. I was completely fine initially, but around the six-week mark it began to wear, and about the two-month mark, I came close to actual depression. I was quite glad when I was able to get about again.

I think that was more about not being able to exercise, though. I feel if I had been able to use an indoor bike or something I wouldn't have had a problem. So long as I have books and the internet, I'm quite happy to hole up at home for long periods.

A lot depends on the environment. I get fed up in cars or on planes very quickly, but so long as I have room to stretch out and a bit of peace and quiet, I'm grand.

edward2222

galljga1 wrote: »

Went outside once.
Didn't like it.

Thats cool,
I also went inside once...
Also didnt like it...

LadyAthame

Not long that's for sure. I can't sit still long at all. Not that I have this crazy life. I disagree about it being easier for introverts.

_Kaiser_

I regularly have lazy weekends where I might not set foot outside the door between Friday night and Monday morning. I have a very early start during the week and a 50 minute commute (each way) with occasional conference calls in the evening, so there are times after all that when I want do do feck all except eat, watch some TV, read Boards/play games. Every 2nd weekend is pretty busy anyway so I enjoy the break when I can get it.

Menas

I would go loo laa if I stayed in side for too long. I need to be out there getting light exercise and chatting to real people. Fresh air and some daylight on my skin. People watching.
I reckon if I was house bound for any period of time I would get massively depressed.

HamsterFace

hopgog wrote: »

On the dole atm so, leave house once a week to collect money do a week shop. As I have little left after the mortgage and bills I usally don't leave till next week.

When the weather was fine like last week I sit in the garden with my tablet and garden a bit. Those days are really nice, sit outside read and smoke a joint with a cup of coffee or a beer. When wet it's mostly indoors so not as nice.

Do you look for work between joints?

Desolation Of Smug

2 hours no bother..maybe 3 at a stretch, unless I'm asleep. I don't think I've ever spent a full day in the house. I can't even imagine doing that. Into the car and gone somewhere.

Mallagio

2 Days and I'm climbing the walls.

Chrome342

Just for 24 hours maybe.

valoren

I'm like a dog me.

I need to be walked everyday.

kfallon

If the weather was absolute shíte I could prob go home from work on Friday evening and not resurface til Monday but more than likely I would prob need to get out of the gaff and head to the shop/bookies just to mix it up a bit!

Depends if there was plenty of good sport on or not!

Qualitymark

An Australian researcher, Dr Kathryn Rose of the University of Sydney, made a huge study of 2,300 Australian 12-year-olds in relation to the incidence of short sight, and found that those children who did not play outside were at increased risk of becoming nearsighted. A study of 1,250 Singapore teenagers by Seang-Mei Saw of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine came up with the same result. Then Dr Rose made a bigger study, of 4,000 schoolchildren; same result again.

Short-sightedness/nearsightedness (UK/US usage) has increased enormously in recent years worldwide, but especially in the Far East - Japan, China, Malaysia, Singapore, etc.

Countries that have a high level of a genetic risk factor for short sight don't have a high number of shortsighted people - if the children play outside a lot. It seems that the gene only expresses if a kid is deprived of outdoor light in the couple of years before puberty (as happens at the moment in the Far East, where they've gone crazy for homework clubs and grinds since World War II).

The scientists are not yet sure why light is necessary to growing eyes; but apparently some interaction between the retina and the glandular system goes haywire if kids don't get enough outdoor light in those years before and during puberty, and the eyeballs kind of freeze into a nearsighted shape.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if this research doesn't also have wider applications, and outdoor light turns out to be very important for adult health, too. Look at the better health in youth, adulthood and old age of the Scandinavian countries, who have in the last 50 years built a huge network of paths to allow people to walk and cycle in cities, by the sea and in mountains. Ireland could do the same with equally good results.

Riverireland

1 full day and night in the winter if the weather was really bad and I was well stocked. Twice that maybe if I were sick. Any longer I'd have to get out, would go mad if I had to stay indoors for a long time.

Qualitymark

Separately, in the 1930s in England, young unemployed people went hillwalking, leading to an immense societal change http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manchester_Rambler

biko

I was inside for 4 days or so a few years ago.
Felt like I was released from prison when I left the house, I had to rediscover social interaction.

Boom_Bap

I had surgery on my knee a few years back and had to rest for 5 or 6 days afterwards. It was great the first few hours playing video games and watching box sets, by the second day I was hankering to get out and do something. It was fairly rough after that.

Mesrine65

HamsterFace wrote: »

Do you look for work between joints?

Judgemental much? :rolleyes:

Qualitymark

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I had surgery on my knee a few years back and had to rest for 5 or 6 days afterwards. It was great the first few hours playing video games and watching box sets, by the second day I was hankering to get out and do something. It was fairly rough after that.

Funny thing is, a friend's getting a second knee replaced with a bionic titanium knee. In both cases she was sternly told to take plenty of exercise (and physio), including during the hours immediately after the operation :eek:

Luckily she's a gardening, walking kind of a woman.

cloud493

I like the idea of doing nothing and staying in more than the practise of it. I'm actually really restless and I can only go a few hours or so before I go out for a walk or a run or to do something thats not sitting inside with the curtains closed.

Mesrine65

Snow bound in my friends cottage, while house-sitting, for 5 days on a mountain in Tipperary a couple of years back.

Well stocked with food, a generator & his own well.

I survived & actually enjoyed the tranquility & beautiful landscape covered in snow.

Boom_Bap

Qualitymark wrote: »

Funny thing is, a friend's getting a second knee replaced with a bionic titanium knee. In both cases she was sternly told to take plenty of exercise (and physio), including during the hours immediately after the operation :eek:

Luckily she's a gardening, walking kind of a woman.

I think it was on my sixth day post op I had to go to the physio. I hadn't bent my leg in 6 days. The physio lies me down, takes off the dressing and goes to down bending my knee all over the place. The fooking noises out of it. He reckoned I should have been more mobile in the 6 days, but the quacks told me not to move. So someone was giving me the wrong info.

The thing I'm remembering most about being cooped up for that period of time is not having a bed time, or a regular waking up time. I was all over the place with all the naps during the day as well.

5starpool

Depends where you are and why you stay in I guess. If I was at home with all my amenities and people brought me whatever I needed I'm sure I'd have no problem spending a prolonged period indoors. I've done weekends where I'd be fully supplied and not leave from Friday evening until Monday morning, and that can be nice at times to have zero things to do or think about. If I had a bet to win by staying insode for a month but with the above provisos, I think I'd have no problem with it.

If though I was stuck inside due to injury/illness/incarceration I'd likely have a very different view of it, much like I do every weekday when I'm in work and wish I wasn't. I'd love to be outside now for example.

Egginacup

hopgog wrote: »

Grow my own and brew my own beer, too expensive otherwise

In your face, schwiing :pac:

Egginacup

I don't know how people could stay indoors for days on end....and a month? :eek:

Granted I like to have the place to myself if I have loads of beer, cigs, rashers for the sambos and the telly / internet. I could go a day or two. But eventually I'd have to get out. Not to go roaming the mountains and wilderness or any of that shit but just to get to the pub and crack a few jokes and flirt with the barmaid and then sit outside and watch people for a while.

One thing I used to do when I was in college and was up till all hours studying when the rest of the world was asleep, was when it was a pissing rainy night, say 2:30am and I still have my head in a physics book, I'd put on good boots and my winter coat and walk through the streets in the lashing rain. Not a soul out......not a car on the streets, just the traffic lights not even changing. Walk for a good half hour then go home and fcuk off to bed. Let the studying wait.

eeeee

Qualitymark wrote: »

An Australian researcher, Dr Kathryn Rose of the University of Sydney, made a huge study of 2,300 Australian 12-year-olds in relation to the incidence of short sight, and found that those children who did not play outside were at increased risk of becoming nearsighted. A study of 1,250 Singapore teenagers by Seang-Mei Saw of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine came up with the same result. Then Dr Rose made a bigger study, of 4,000 schoolchildren; same result again.

Short-sightedness/nearsightedness (UK/US usage) has increased enormously in recent years worldwide, but especially in the Far East - Japan, China, Malaysia, Singapore, etc.

Countries that have a high level of a genetic risk factor for short sight don't have a high number of shortsighted people - if the children play outside a lot. It seems that the gene only expresses if a kid is deprived of outdoor light in the couple of years before puberty (as happens at the moment in the Far East, where they've gone crazy for homework clubs and grinds since World War II).

The scientists are not yet sure why light is necessary to growing eyes; but apparently some interaction between the retina and the glandular system goes haywire if kids don't get enough outdoor light in those years before and during puberty, and the eyeballs kind of freeze into a nearsighted shape.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if this research doesn't also have wider applications, and outdoor light turns out to be very important for adult health, too. Look at the better health in youth, adulthood and old age of the Scandinavian countries, who have in the last 50 years built a huge network of paths to allow people to walk and cycle in cities, by the sea and in mountains. Ireland could do the same with equally good results.

I blow that theory right out of the water! Grew up farming, and at horses. Apart from school I was outside every single day until it was dark. Had to, animals need to be fed/fathered/exercised rain, hail or snow. Plus I hated being inside. I got my first pair of glasses at 10 I think. It certainly wasn't for the want of outside time! I did read an awful lot though, mainly at night time but I'd take my books outside or down to.the sheds. Maybe I should blame my early nocturnal reading habits!