Feeling stuck indoors
Cabin fever can be described as a feeling of restlessness and irritability when we are stuck indoors.
Confinement can frustrate what psychologists consider to be our three basic psychological needs:
- Autonomy (choosing what we do)
- Competence (feeling like we're achieving our aims
- Relatedness (feeling connected to others)
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The Three Basic Psychological Needs
- Autonomy: Choosing what we want to do by ourselves.
- Competence: Experiencing the satisfaction of completing our aims, goals or desires.
- Relatedness: Feeling connected to others.
Being confined to a single place r...
Cabin Fever
Cabin fever is a kind of physiological uneasiness... a feeling of restlessness and irritability that happens when we are stuck indoors, or are confined to a small place with many others. The angsty restlessness was a shared experience of millions of people last year during the lockdown months.
Feeling stuck
This feeling of being stuck where we are with what we have doesn’t exactly make us want to jump out of bed in the morning.
It consumes our mind which slows our actions and paralyzes us from achieving our goals.
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