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What is Cabin Fever?
How to Deal With
“Cabin Fever” is a term coined in the early 1900s in the United States to define the state of a person after exposure to long periods of isolation.
The first adventurers who dared to colonize the vast territories of North America and Canada called it “Prairie Madness.”
It is that feeling of loneliness from being isolated from the rest of society.
The first adventurers who dared to colonize the vast territories of North America and Canada called it “Prairie Madness.”
It is that feeling of loneliness to be being isolated from the rest of society.
The Minnesota study
In 1980 a study was conducted by Dr. Rosenblatt in Minnesota where people spent long winters isolated in their homes.
He concluded that the inhabitants frequently shared the following symptoms: depression, insomnia, restlessness, and irritability, and the study subjects also increased their consumption of alcoholic beverages.
In turn, another study group adapted to loneliness by preferring isolation to social contact.
Today this study is more relevant than ever. This global pandemic has divided us into two groups: one who are eager to return to normality and go out into the street, and those who are…
