Anyone else housebound?

Are you housebound?


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Hellraising

Well-known member
Is anyone else housebound? How long have you been this way? What about work/school? Do you have any friends? What do you do at home?
 

Travis88

Well-known member
The only time i leave the house is about once every other wednsday, im 16 left school last year and got tutoring which i feel is slipping away from me. I have no friends and had never had any, and all i seem to do is Surf the web watch tv and play games.
Isnt life swell? :roll:
 

Travis88

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I leave the house for allergy shots but am starting to think that is BS. I got the pm :) . I've been home scince the begining of last school year, Have had SP as long as i can remember and was home a couple years in the past but tried going back to school (stupid meds affected my judgement only to be dissapointed).
 

JWH

Well-known member
I go out maybe two days a week for a small job, but other than that I do nothing. I make sure to go out for a walk or to the gym once a day and perhaps break it up by going shopping or something like that, but for sure a lot of time is spent on the internet. This is a big change from fearing leaving the house however, which I did last year.
 

Hamble

Well-known member
How old are you Hellraising?
I wouldn't say I was housebound but in my late teens I hid away in my home alot. It was so much more reassuring to be in my comfort zone than to expose myself to the outside world despite my own mother calling me a hermit everyday and telling me it wasn't natural, it felt like the most natural thing to do. It's easy to do this as a teenager as you don't have many responsibilites in life and you can (hopefully) hide behind your parents. But eventually I found that staying in doors made me sink deeper into depression. Aside from the fact we need sunlight, lack of it contributes to depression, we need to break away bit by bit from our comfort zones which feed our state of minds. The more you give in and hide away, the deeper and deeper you sink. So the sooner you can take small steps to try and break away from habits like hiding away from the outside at home, the easier it will be to overcome your emotions about it.
 

beautiful_soul

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Yes I am housebound especially now on vacations,I read books,watch tv,chat with friends online and talk with my family...

:wink:
 

Hellraising

Well-known member
I just turned 17. And you're right about the more you hide, the deeper you sink. But I've been hiding way too long, and it's too hard and too late to climb back up.
 
it sucks

I'm pretty much housebound too. I even tried working from home and that didn't work either. I've recently learned that the CBT I've been doing can actually make me worse. "Thought suppression can actually increase the frequency of unwanted thoughts" claims the author of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy). So I really don't know where to turn anymore. For now I'm just reading the ACT book and hoping this will help.
 

Horatio

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Not at the moment - I forced myself to get up and fight for my career which Ive spent so much effort on. Felt terrible to lie there and see that dissapear on me.

Before then I had spent about 5 months in bed

to be honest Im finding "the real world" very stressfull so wouldnt be surprised if I find myself housebound again soon. Mayb 6 months housebound, 6 months out there might work to give me time to recover
 

Hellraising

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I see alot of people saying that their 'almost housebound', 'a little housebound', 'housebound most of the time', and all that.

You are either housebound OR not. No inbetween. Housebound means that you DO NOT go out of the house AT ALL. Not a single foot out of door. Not to the yard or anything.

So looking at all the replies to this post, I guess I'm still the only one who's really housebound, as in FULL-TIME housebound.
 

thelostworld

Well-known member
how do you manage to never leave the house? do you live with your parents? if so, i would think they would get kind of fed up with having their grown kid around the house all the time..dont get me wrong, if i could, i would probably rarely leave the house, but i have to. what do you do all day and where is your life going?
 

Hellraising

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I just turned 17, I live with my parents, and I've been housebound for... I don't know.. a few months. My parents only thought it was odd about a week ago. I do whatever you can do at home the whole day. (Watch TV, listen to music, use the computer, etc.) Where is my life going? Probably down the drain leading to Hell.
 

bluehands

Member
I usually go out very early in the morning when I can avoid other people but recently I went out at about midday and am hoping to make this more of routine
 

zzz

New member
I'm 29. I still live at home, completely dependant on my mother for everything. I never had a job. I never went to a doctors appointment or a hairdressers appointment by myself. I don't even call to make the appointments. It all falls on my poor mom. I'm like a perpetual 12 year old.

I don't take out the garbage. I don't open the curtains. I don't wake up and jump in the shower and put on fresh clean clothes and style my hair. I spend the day sitting around in my sweats/pajamas until evening when I force myself to get in the shower. Then I put on another set of sweats/pajamas.

I've been this way on and off (never completely off) since I was about 19. I have a few friends but there's some huge issues there. They play a major part in the whole drama of me being "housebound".
 

Danfalc

Banned
House bound

Hellraising, you asked me how housebound i was on my first post, i replied that i wont leave the house unless i have to for say like paying bills.Upon reading this post, I realised you basicaly want a yes or no answer.Um in that case yes, I live on my own through and have no support.So I have to brave the outside world, otherwise i will have to brave court instead.Can you really imagine someone with sp in court?
Im not trying to shoot down your point that someone is either housebound or not, I can see where your going with that. Im just saying that its not black and white all the time.Hope i havnt offended you and i hope you understand what im getting at.
 

Hellraising

Well-known member
Yes I understand Danfalc. And thank you for saying all that. But I'm just really angry that I'm the only one who's totally housebound. No one's as bad as me, I'm the worst. But whatever. Life sucks, this world sucks, Social Phobia sucks, and I suck.

Please don't tell me "Ohh, you don't suck." Because I would actually feel worse.
 

beautiful_soul

Well-known member
Hellraising said:
I just turned 17, I live with my parents, and I've been housebound for... I don't know.. a few months. My parents only thought it was odd about a week ago. I do whatever you can do at home the whole day. (Watch TV, listen to music, use the computer, etc.) Where is my life going? Probably down the drain leading to Hell.

I see what you mean I was really housebound when I was 19 years old,my mom was worried cause I was always in my room watching tv

now I try to go out at least for a few hours
 
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