History Main / CabinFever

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangbone!}},'' when a barbarian spends too long under a roof, they're afflicted with hovelfroth, which turns them into rabid forces of nature, and will only calm down once they're outside. When Bill pressures Fangbone into spending the day inside with him watching movies, Drool takes advantage of Fangbone's rising need to go outside and turns all the doors into looping portals, trapping them inside, forcing Fangbone to lose his mind and become wildly violent towards Bill.

->''"Cabin fever has ravaged all aboard''\\
''This once proud vessel has become a floating psycho ward"''

->''"Cabin fever has ravaged all aboard"''\\
''"This once proud vessel has become a floating psycho ward"''

->''"I got cabin fever''\\
''It's burning in my brain''\\
''I got cabin fever''\\
''It's driving me insane!"''

* Parodied in ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'':

* In ''VideoGame/{{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: to the point of letting her last surviving coworker die a slow and painful death because she was terrified of being alone.]]

This is a land based trope, if it happens at sea that is OceanMadness. InSpace! it may be presented as SpaceMadness, even if it's actually due to confinement. See also GoMadFromTheIsolation which is about ''social'' isolation and does not require a small space, although there is overlap.

* In the ''Literature/HandOfThrawn'' duology, one of the many subplots has a few Star Destroyers waiting within a [[StealthInSpace cloaking shield]]. Since this is the Franchise/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.

* ''Series/ForAllMankind''. The Apollo 22 crew (Baldwin, Stevens, and Poole) gradually grow stir-crazy while stranded on the Jamestown Base due to constant delays in their relief launch. Stevens has the worst of it, defying orders to go walking on the Moon by himself and becoming obsessed with ''The Bob Newhart Show'' (the only show they have to watch on video).

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. In "Night", Voyager is crossing a vast expanse with no star systems even visible to their sensors. Deprived of the stimulus they get from stopping off at a ConvenientlyClosePlanet or their weekly life-endangering crisis, the crew start to suffer this trope despite having access to artificial environments on the holodeck. Most importantly, Captain Janeway locks herself up in her cabin suffering from HeroicBSOD.

* In the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' graphic novel ''The Lost Warrior'', Graystripe gets this, since he's lived outdoors in the forest his whole life and is now shut in a house as a pet. Results in him desperately searching for a way out, and he claws up some of the furniture.

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* In ''Series/LostGirl'', Cabin Fever and all its symptoms (including the perception of being trapped in the first place) is the modus operandi and source of sustenance of a spider Fae called a Djiene. It doesn't hurt that it happens to strike right when Bo and Kenzi are beginning to strain each other's nerves with their cohabitation.
* The ''[[Series/AscensionMiniseries Ascension]]'' series by Syfy has this as an actual medical condition all of the ''U.S.S Ascension'''s children suffer from. Called "The Crisis" it afflicts teenagers when they realize they have literally no hope of doing anything other than what's planned for them or ever visiting any place other than the one they grew up on.
* John Diggle begins to suffer from Cabin Fever in Season Five of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' as he can't go leave Team Arrow's place (apart from fighting crime as [[SecretIdentity Spartan]]) due to being a wanted man. It gets especially bad in the episode [[Recap/ArrowS5E7Vigilante "Vigilante"]] when he misses his son's second birthday. At the end of the episode, Rene arranges for Dig's family to come for a visit, which helps a lot.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' 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 ''WesternAnimation/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]])
* ''WesternAnimation/AngelaAnaconda'': Angela gives ''herself'' detention when she gets Cabin Fever after faking Agorophobia.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' episode "Rainy Days", the kids have to have indoor recess during a week of non-stop rain. By day three, the kids all get cabin fever.
* This seems to drive most of the conflict of ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom''. The characters rarely leave the same small island/town/Eggman's lair setting, and as the episode "Aim Low" makes clear, when Eggman isn't trying to destroy him, Sonic grows increasingly restless. Also, one episode is actually titled "Cabin Fever" and involves the characters being trapped in a house together during a thunderstorm.
* Happens in the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "Pineapple Fever" when [=SpongeBob=], Patrick, and Squidward are trapped in [=SpongeBob's=] house during a storm. They all proceed to act feral when they start fighting over food.

* Daffy Duck, from ''WesternAnimation/PorkyPigsFeat'' as he and Porky are imprisoned in their hotel room until they pay their bill:
-->I can't stand it! It's getting to me! I'm going stir crazy! Bastille batty! Cooler cuckoo! Look at my prison pallor! I'm black as a sheet!

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--> Who am I — a first cosmonaut, or a last dog?

* Lighthouse keepers have historically been very prone to this trope: Just imagine living in a tower, usually on a secluded rock or tiny island. [[MostAnnoyingSound You hear the sounds of the waves on the rocks constantly]]. You have to do repetitive tasks on a regular basis, and if you fail to do them people can die. It's always humid, and probably cold. You've been eating stale bread for a week. And then Bob starts playing that stupid accordion again. [[FlippingTheTable That's it]]. Alice is [[AxCrazy getting the ax]]. She doesn't care if its [[OffingTheAnnoyance Bob or the accordion, one of them is getting chopped up]].

* John Diggle begins to suffer from Cabin Fever in Season Five of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' as he can't go leave Team Arrow's (apart from fighting crime as [[SecretIdentity Spartan]]) due to being a wanted man. It gets especially bad in the episode [[Recap/ArrowS5E7Vigilante "Vigilante"]] when he misses his son's second birthday. At the end of the episode, Rene arranges for Dig's family to come for a visit, which helps a lot.

* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': Reynir, who's normally quite friendly and tries to not be too demanding, ends up grabbing Lalli (who doesn't even speak his language) and yelling at him upon getting the impression that he's doing nothing about a bad situation they both know about. The reason this trope is a likely factor in the outburst and the reason Reynir himself is unable to do something about the situation are one and the same: by that that point of the story, [[spoiler:Reynir hasn't been allowed to leave the tank in other circumstances than supervised walks for several days due to having to be isolated from Tuuri]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Happens to John while he's stuck on a space ship with only Jade, Davesprite, and his Nanna for company for [[spoiler:three years]], causing his normally [[ThePollyanna Pollyanna-esque]] personality to take a dive straight into the pessimistic and jerky. Jade, who had lived on an island on her own for all her life anyway, isn't really affected.

This is a land based trope, if it happens at sea that is OceanMadness. InSpace! it may be presented as SpaceMadness, even if it's actually due to confinement.

* Lighthouse keepers have historically been very prone to this trope: Just imagine living in a tower, usually on a secluded rock or tiny island. [[MostAnnoyingSound You hear the sounds of the waves on the rocks constantly]]. You have to do repetitive tasks on a regular basis, and if you fail to do them people can die. Its always humid, and probably cold. You've been eating stale bread for a week. And then Bob starts playing that stupid accordion again. [[FlippingTheTable Thats it]]. Alice is [[AxCrazy getting the ax]]. She doesn't care if its [[OffingTheAnnoyance Bob or the accordion, one of them is getting chopped up]].

* The basis of the StanRogers song "Canol Road".

* This is the drive for part of the BlackComedy in ''FanFic/ReactWatchBelieveYikes''. Team [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}}} gets accidentally left behind after everyone leaves Becon Academy for summer vacation and they slowly drive one another insane through their antics.

* This is the drive for part of the BlackComedy in ''FanFic/WatchReactBelieveYikes''. Team [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}}} gets accidentally left behind after everyone leaves Becon Academy for summer vacation and they slowly drive one another insane through their antics.