History Main / CabinFever

* A ''TimeSquad'' episode appropriately titled "Cabin Fever". The squad stops getting missions and end up stuck together in their space station for weeks and eventually go mad. (well, [[OnlySaneMan except Otto]])

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* StephenKing's novel ''TheShining'' (and its film adaptation) involves cabin fever accentuating the effect of the ghosts. The plot follows a family of three trapped in an isolated resort in the dead of winter.
* In the ''HandOfThrawn'' duology, one of the many subplots has a few Star Destroyers waiting within a [[StealthInSpace cloaking shield]]. Since this is the StarWarsExpandedUniverse, cloaking technology involves being in a communications near-blackout, and completely blind to everything outside of the shield. The Star Destroyers hang out there for months. One captain mentions that the crew became restless, using the entertainment centers and sparring much more often, and trying to offer outrageous bribes to the tiny scout ships that leave the cloak to observe; he thinks he's too disciplined to be affected, but as the viewers cut to him over intervals, it's pretty clear that he's cracking.

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* Angela Anaconda gives ''herself'' detention when she gets Cabin Fever after faking Agorophobia.

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** There was another story of a lighthouse where one of the keepers went mad and ''almost'' killed the other keeper but he had to tie him up, keep all the sharp weapons away from him and deal with his insane ramblings until the next keepers arrived with supplies a couple days later.

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* There's the RealLife(?) story of a lighthouse where one of the keepers went mad and killed the others.
** There was another story of a lighthouse where one of the keepers went mad and ''almost'' killed the other keeper but he had to tie him up, keep all the sharp weapons away from him and deal with his insane ramblings until the next keepers arrived with supplies a couple days later.
* Has been debunked as a theory for the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident Dyatlov Pass Incident]].
* People may often joke about this when forced to remain together in close quarters for long periods of time.
* Likely the origin of the SpaceMadness trope. In the 1950's experiments were held to test the affects of working alone in a cramped, low-oxygen environment. This lead to hallucinations and other signs of mental stress. As no-one had gone up into space yet this wasn't encouraging.

* In ''{{Borderlands}}'', archeologist Patricia Tannis suffers from an unusual form of this condition, as the "cabin" in her case is the barren, desolate, slightly-hellish planet Pandora. She slowly goes crazy and [[spoiler: ends up murdering one of her co-workers because the co-worker is a slob.]]

* Parodied in ''Discworld/Hogfather'':

* A ''TimeSquad'' episode appropriately titled "Cabin Fever". The squad stops getting missions and end up stuck together in their space station for weeks and eventually go mad.

->''I got cabin fever''\\

''It's driving me insane''\\

* In one episode of ''{{Beetlejuice}}'', BJ gets cabin fever (which manifests as his head turning into a log cabin). A local disease control guy tells him the only remedy is quarantine, leaving Lydia to try to keep him from going (more) insane from the confinement.

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* In one episode of ''{{BeetleJuice}}'', BJ gets cabin fever (which manifests as his head turning into a log cabin). A local disease control guy tell him the only remedy is quarantine, leaving Lydia to try to keep him from going (more) insane from the confinement.

* In the HandOfThrawn duology, one of the many subplots has a few Star Destroyers waiting within a [[StealthInSpace cloaking shield]]. Since this is the StarWarsExpandedUniverse, cloaking technology involves being in a communications near-blackout, and completely blind to everything outside of the shield. The Star Destroyers hang out there for months. One captain mentions that the crew became restless, using the entertainment centers and sparring much more often, and trying to offer outrageous bribes to the tiny scout ships that leave the cloak to observe; he thinks he's too disciplined to be affected, but as the viewers cut to him over intervals, it's pretty clear that he's cracking.

This is a land based trope, if it happens at sea that is OceanMadness.

** But there was another story of a lighthouse where one of the keppers went mad and ''almost'' killed the other keeper but he had to tie him up, keep all the sharp weapons away from him and deal with his insane ramblings until the next keepers arrived with supplies a couple days later.
* RealLife: Has been debunked as a theory for the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident Dyatlov Pass Incident]].
* People may often joke about this.

* RealLife: Has been debunked as a theory for the Dyaltov Pass Incident.

* StephenKing's novel ''TheShining'' (and its film adaptation) involves cabin fever accentuating the effect of the ghosts. The plot follows a family of three trapped in an isolated resort in the dead of winter.
* In the ''{{Simpsons}}'' episode "Mountain of Madness", Mr. Burns and Homer Simpson get trapped in a cabin together after an avalanche. Both exhibit signs of cabin fever.

* A ''TimeSquad'' episode appropriately titled "Cabin Fever". The squad stops getting missions and end up stuck together in their space station for weeks and eventually go mad.
* The basis of the StanRogers song "Canol Road".

* On an episode of ''MythBusters'', the hosts test the myth of cabin fever, isolating themselves for a period of time in the {{Alaska}}n winter while being observed and taking cognitive and stress tests. The test results were unusable due to incorrect testing procedures; however, one host, {{Adam Savage}}, exhibited all four of the symptoms of cabin fever they were looking for, while the other, Jamie Hyneman, only exhibited one (excessive sleep). They deemed the myth "plausible".

This is a land based trope, if it happens at sea that is OceanMdness.

* An entire musical number (and the page quotes) comes from the DisneyAcidSequence about it in ''MuppetTreasureIsland''.

* In ''Borderlands'', archeologist Patricia Tannis suffers from an unusual form of this condition, as the "cabin" in her case is the barren, desolate, slightly-hellish planet Pandora. She slowly goes crazy and [[spoiler: ends up murdering one of her co-workers because the co-worker is a slob.]]

* An entire musical DisneyAcidSequence about it in ''MuppetTreasureIsland''.