![]() ![]() If this definition strikes a familiar feeling, you may have fallen under the spell of “cabin fever”. ![]() We lead the Universities for Nottingham initiative, in partnership with Nottingham Trent University, a pioneering collaboration between the city’s two world-class institutions to improve levels of prosperity, opportunity, sustainability, health and wellbeing for residents in the city and region we are proud to call home.“Extreme irritability and restlessness from living in isolation or a confined indoor area for a prolonged time”, says Webster. The birthplace of discoveries such as MRI and ibuprofen, our innovations transform lives and tackle global problems such as sustainable food supplies, ending modern slavery, developing greener transport, and reducing reliance on fossil fuels.The University is a major employer and industry partner - locally and globally - and our graduates are the second most targeted by the UK's top employers, according to The Graduate Market in 2022 report by High Fliers Research. The University is among the best universities in the UK for the strength of our research, positioned seventh for research power in the UK according to REF 2021. We have a pioneering spirit, expressed in the vision of our founder Sir Jesse Boot, which has seen us lead the way in establishing campuses in China and Malaysia - part of a globally connected network of education, research and industrial engagement. Studying at the University of Nottingham is a life-changing experience, and we pride ourselves on unlocking the potential of our students. Ranked 18th in the UK by the QS World University Rankings 2023, University of Nottingham is a founding member of Russell Group of research-intensive universities. We hope the book will help people as they come out of lockdown to make sense of it, better understand the experience and mental health challenges they faced and plan ahead in case variant infections escape the available vaccines and we all have to head back indoors.”Ĭabin Fever is available from March 8 here. Professor Crawford said: “In the last year, we have all had to learn how to live with lockdown, and sadly this may now be something we have to do in the future too. Accounts from literature, memoir, and reportage reveal the fascinating and sometimes frightening aspects of the phenomenon. Professor Crawford and Jamie explore the evidence of mental decline caused by prolonged or extreme social isolation, in particular what we can learn from penal history and solitary confinement as well as the importance of social connectivity in maintaining good mental health. Similar syndromes, with different names, emerged in other challenging or remote regions. It was here that the notion of a psychological ‘fever’ or restlessness began to replace the actual physical fever of typhus, as pioneers took to their cabins for long periods, especially during winter months. “Fortunately, we know that there are several potential antidotes to cabin fever, such as: accessing outdoor space, not least nature acceptance of the ‘new normal’ social connectedness (largely achieved digitally during the pandemic) working as a ‘crew’ setting goals and purpose to each day conceiving home during lockdown as a sanctuary rather than a prison looking after the body (nutrition, hydration, sleep, exercise) and engaging with or experiencing creativity through the arts, crafts and humanities.”Īs part of their research, the book delves into the origins and history of cabin fever, in particular how the psychological folk syndrome developed out of the affliction of physical infection, notably in the case of typhus, which spread from the overcrowded, rural cabins of Ireland in the Great Famine to the pioneering frontiers of North America. ![]() But perhaps most importantly, it occurs in our minds." ![]() Whilst we have faced the greatest period of isolation in our lifetimes, we must remember that cabin fever is not new, it happens sea, on land, in the air and in space. ![]()
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