Talk:Cabin fever

Crime and Punishment
Is there a reference for this? I've read this book a long time ago and I don't remember cabin fever being a central theme - madness certainly was, but that isn't the same thing as cabin fever. I'm not saying it's wrong if it can be referenced but it struck me as an odd example from my memory of the book. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.133.47.155 (talk) 13:14, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Incidents of Cabin Fever
Cabin Fever was an incident of sudden berserk violence when two trappers, mountain men, attempted to overwinter in small cabins in the 1830's. Beaver and other pelts were at their best when in full winter thickness. They ran trap lines over the countryside during the winter. Accounts of Cabin Fever were in books about figures such as Jim Bridger. It happened when the men were snowed in and were confined in the small room for weeks.

There are stories of an Axe murder in Russian polar station during an argument over a chess game. When fistfights began to happen in Russian space missions, again over chess games, Russia banned chess in live and work in too-small single-room situations.

Those berserk episodes of violence still happen today in locations where families live in traditional or ethnic housing. These are usually single-room mud huts- Africa, Hogans- Navajo, Yurts and other tents in Lapp

Related Jumping Diseases
Jumping diseases may be associated and one way to understand this effect. Jumping Frenchmen of Maine was discovered when French Canadian lumberjacks began demonstrating strange startle-matching behaviors. The same behavior was found in Malaysia where it is called, Latah. Then other cases were found around the world. In all these locations where the subjects have vastly different beliefs, customs, and different levels of technological advancement, victims live in single-room housing. In 1880's Maine lumberjacks lived in bunkhouses. In Malaysia entire villages lived in longhouses.

Startle Matching Behavior and Subliminal Distraction
In his book "Boo!," Dr Simmons, recounts single cases of startle-matching behavior in workers on factory floors in the US. All those locations allow exposure to Subliminal Distraction.

The reason to study startle-matching to illustrate sudden violence, is that the S-M behaviors are so strange they cannot be mistaken and no argument can be made that it might be something else or one or more cases do not meet the standard for inclusion.

Why does one level of exposure produce violence and another startle-matching? I don't know except that the extreme hyper-suggestibility of the S-M cases indicates that operant conditioning is involved. When one is involved in a dispute the operant conditioning raises the dispute to a psychotic-like level so that when the mental break associated with Subliminal Distraction in business offices happens, violence is the outcome. It would follow that college suicides happen when the operant conditioning works with the worries of college failure or other issues.

Visual Subliminal Distraction is not recognized in the United States and has been ridiculed by moderators for Wikipedia. Here SD only refers to the physiology of sensor cells that do not stop sending neural impulses to your brain when stimulated even though you dissociate slightly, ignoring everything happening around you. You do that when you read, write, use a computer, become lost in thought or daydream. When the stimulation is movement in far peripheral vision it is detected as threat-movement to trigger a startle and vision reflex. Subliminal efforts your brain makes to force the startle are also a Subliminal Distraction.

In the 1960's that phenomenon caused mental breaks for knowledge workers using the first prototypes of movable close-spaced office workstations. The Cubicle solved that problem.

http://VisionAndPsychosis.Net index and page list. http://visionandpsychosis.net/Culture_Bound_Syndromes.htm http://visionandpsychosis.net/Astronauts_Insanity.htm L K Tucker 68.211.73.143 03:07, 21 March 2006 (UTC)


 * any point of putting this on the talk page instead of the main page?


 * Well, if you can find piles of sources to back up all that stuff, aside from the unscholarly links given above, go for it. If not, let's just keep it on the talk page until someone can... Afrank 06:21, 24 December 2006 (UTC)


 * No, as fast as you can edit this into the article someone will come along and eliminate it. Information on the mental events that cause this problem are not in text books. A grad student who emailed me said that the information is only in lecture material. She said students are expected to "pick it up" during their course study in design. The business office problem does appear on TV shows as a novelty item. The last person I spoke with about that said it had been on a medical show aired over dish network in the last three years.

If you can name any one of the several shows that have featured this visit the site link above and email me.

L K Tucker 68.217.113.57 21:07, 16 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Frank, although there is tons about where this condition come from, there is virtually no information about this condition and so this artical is not very informative.

Can you provide me more information.

Also, I would like to consider the effects of cabit fever in family life.

Effects of Subliminal Distraction on Family Life
I have been unable to carry out the next phase of my research project which is field interviews of subjects. That's probably what you wanted to know.

I can point to two cases where enough information was published in news accounts or TV video to establish Subliminal Distraction played a part in the episode. The Janet Marchcase and the Beverly Watson case resulted in deaths and convictions of the husbands.

The one local subject I found did not want to give an interview. He said he and his wife began to fight over nothing until they moved their business office. The disputes disappeared when that change was made.

Mark Bartonbelieved he was having a mental break. His suicide note mentioned unattributed fear so intense he said he could not bear it. That's one of the outcomes of SD exposure. He killed his wife and two children with a hammer before shooting up two investment companies in Atlanta. He placed his computer in the apartment living room where his family could walk around him as he used it.

I suggest you start with the recent Virginia Tech shooting. Cho created the "special circumstances" for exposure when he used the suite common room to study and use his laptop.

The effect on family life might be anything from children constantly fighting to a serious event with violence. You may use any information on my site to work on your project. I am the site owner and copyright holder.

L K Tucker 74.224.31.241 05:55, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Just wanted to thank Tucker. I found your website years ago, then lost it. I firmly believe you are correct with the SD influence on aggression and temp. pyschosis. Was lookign for the site this morning and am glad to see youi gaining mainstream ground a bit with your research — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.244.192.128 (talk) 14:22, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

What are BTM's
Under the section other meanings it says It was derived from "Drink or Sink", an event created to bring together friends and celebrate the birthday of BTM's. Yet nowhere in the article does it define what BTM means. If someone knows what it is they should clarify that. Itsmeiam (talk) 06:52, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

I rewrote the article
Didn't do much, just kind of reorganized things, made it less of a mess, added some info from when the Mythbusters tested it. Some of the old references were either broken links or simply didn't add anything to the article. I also emphasized The Shining as a classic literary example, which may or may not be a good thing...I haven't read the book. There's probably other good examples, but I highly doubt Muppet Treasure Island is one. Feel free to add or expand. --UsaSatsui (talk) 04:48, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * For those people who are reverting some of my additions because the source is Mythbusters, I'd like to point out the show does meet the criteria in WP:RS as a "reliable, third-party published source with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy." --UsaSatsui (talk) 10:49, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Seasonal affective disorder
Someone has added this link to this article with no explanation. I can see no relationship between these topics and am removing it. --Hordaland (talk) 07:31, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Seasonal affective disorder goes hand in hand with cabin fever a person gets depressed from being coupped up inside away from natural light or full spectrum lighting they get cranky and nasty to be around soon this progresses to angrier. Cabin Fever in its milder forms what folks in the northern states (usa) and northern Europe experience weeks of stuck inside they can go out but it is too nasty outside to really do much. You really want to feel the sun on your face again. hard to do when the sun is low in the sky. so Seasonal affective disorder so have a place here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder Mfr60 (talk) 02:31, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Therapy for Cabin Fever? Review
One therapy for Cabin fever may be as simple as getting out and interacting with nature. Research has proven that even brief interactions with nature can promote improved cognitive functioning and overall well-being. -This new section was correctly cited and used its source as a whole not just one section. Nicolasa11 (talk) 21:26, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Critiques
I think to make this article better you could add some pictures. I also think that What Cabin Fever really was could be explained better. I have never heard of cabin fever before i read the article and it was kind of hard to understand. The article could also use some more references --MeganJacobsmeyer94 (talk) 00:46, 15 September 2011 (UTC)MeganJacobsmeyer94

Instances in popular culture
I've just added the Malcolm in the Middle and the movie Pandorum instances of cabin fever. I'm pretty sure there are more instances of cabin fever on TV, movies and liturature.Megatonman (talk) 20:04, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Going outside?
"One therapy for cabin fever is as simple as getting out and interacting with nature directly."

It's not simple when you are snowed in. See the previous paragraph. Dreadfullyboring (talk) 03:58, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

Unprofessional
The article is too unprofessional. The Mo-Ja&#39;al (talk) 19:55, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Origin of definition
The current citation for the definition stir crazy is a link to https://www.dictionary.com/browse/stir-crazy. That page does not directly provide an explanation for 'stir' meaning prison. It does link to https://www.dictionary.com/browse/stir which does provide such a definition. But a link that links to a reference is not itself a reference. I have attempted twice to provide a more informative source for this definition from Green's Dictionary of Slang, the largest historical dictionary of English slang, at https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/ddexyyy, but my attempts are being reverted with the justification that stir-crazy links to stir. I don't find this to be an adequate reason when the minimal definition "a slang word for prison" must be discovered by clicking through to a separate reference, and when Green's provides detailed, educational insight into the meaning of the slang. 2600:1700:17F1:8720:F1F0:504B:8FD2:3984 (talk) 17:19, 12 April 2020 (UTC)