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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye.

Cabin fever introduction

During the long winter months or on rainy days your child may suffer from cabin fever! You know the symptoms: feeling isolated, restless and easily agitated. You feel like screaming - or maybe you do - and you crave a change of scenery. It's a "fever" every one of us tries to avoid.

Cabin fever battle

Cabin Fever and how to reason with this phenomenon takes planning, foresight and fortitude. So before you slip from motivation into hibernation, bring out the Ouija Board, polish your cowboy boots and stock up on videos, chocolate and playdough. Around the world people are plotting and planning their strategy to thwart this annual insidious winter-time fever that brings on claustrophobia, depression, and boredom.

The “fever” is inevitable, and so are the house-bound blues. Before you become edgy and irritable, make a Cabin Fever Remedy Plan with your significant other, your kids, grandkids and neighbors.

Cabin fever defined

Cabin fever is a condition that produces restlessness and irritability caused from being in a confined space. The actual term is slang for a claustrophobic reaction that takes place when a party is isolated and/or shut in, alone or together, for an extended period. The term possibly originated in the United States at the time when settlers would be snowed into their log cabins and had to wait for the spring thaw in order to travel to town.

Cabin fevers day

Besides the four walls you have to continually stare at during the winter months, the weather equally plays a big role in helping people acquire Cabin Fever.

During the cold winter months as temps drop into the twenties, daylight hours are shorten considerably.  Add to the fact a shortage of sun light, caused by an increase in mostly cloudy days and you have the perfect ingredients for a chronic case of Cabin Fever.  You could be prone to many months of hostile despair, as the winter grows on long and cold.

CONCLUSION

Any depression due to winter that creates inactivity, weight gain, social withdrawal and sleep disturbance can be diagnosed as the winter blues, and in fact cabin fever and SAD uc more severe forms of the winter depression. Cabin fever can be brought on by factors like severe storms and confined spaces, and can manifest itself as boredom, irritability and sleep loss. Cabin fever strikes most often during our long, often severe winters, but it can affect a person anytime of year, say research experts.