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The longest time anyone hasn't left their house?

Started by odetoanoddity · Jan 31, 2013 · 35 replies

#21
Does going outside my house in my backyard count? If not, then 2 years. For the last 9 years I've been confined to the house barring a handful of times a year when I have to renew a driver's license, see a dentist or something mandatory. But I did go about 2 years when I never left the house at all. Aside from sitting out on my deck outside. It even amazes me that that's true, lol. Kinda normal for me though.
#22
In the past 10 months, I only left the house 3 times, and each time for less than an hour.
#23
2 weeks I think...
#24
A month and a half...
#25
Winja said: ↑
I love that you have to renew a driver's license even though you aren't going to leave the house. That's awesome!

I know, right - lol. I DID let it lapse a few years ago because I was a) too frightened to go and b) didn't see the point in it, but then several months after it expired I had family problems (health stuff) which required me to drive. So, guess what, because it expired for so long I had to take the tests all over again. Driving course, written/machine, all. Talk about anxiety hell! Ugh. I learned now it's better to renew it than go through an even worse (anxiety wise) option. Life is a barrel of laughs.
#26
Longest time I haven't left my house is maybe 2-3 months.
#27
I think at one point I was in my house for 4 weeks, it was during the summer holidays, I didn't like going anywhere on my own, I could in the dark but because it was light till like 10 I just never went out and during that time I had lost most of my friends who usually dragged me out but my parents made me go outside eventually lol it was a depressing time.
#28
Like 10 months without passing the front door of the house. Until I ended up in a mental institution, which made things worse.
#29
Um, apart from work and getting food, I don't go out. I don't seem to go crazy because of it. But I don't really have any friends anyway. I seem to be relatively okay in my own company. (That age old dilemma of being content in your own company yet still suffer from loneliness)

I have the whole of next week off work, and I don't really plan to do anything (well, a hair cut :] ) The thing is, I hardly ever get to appreciate being in my place during the day because of work, it's actually nice to be inside it when I can. I don't appear to have some driving need to go places. ;x I am probably quite reclusive and a bit of a hermit, but it's always been like that.
#30
15 yrs... without leaving the hse..
#31
I haven't been officially diagnosed with agoraphobia, but I have gone about 4 months without leaving the house I think.
#32
I'm in a 3-month vacation and if no one asks me out, i will not leave the house
#33
Two years when I was a teenager
#34
Probably four days. Got to work, shop for food and so on.
#35
3 weeks. I was hurt pretty bad from a motorcycle wreck. I could get around in the house somewhat but that was about all I could do. This was back in my pre-internet days so I watched daytime T.V. until I was mind numbingly bored and read books. It was during this time I started watching soap operas. Laugh all you want but there wasn't much else on T.V. in the middle of the day.
#36
About a week, maybe a little more than that. I usually start to go a little crazy if I'm stuck in one place for too long.

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