Young people in their 20s have apparently found a new way of dealing with stress: locking in the bathroom and staying there for hours. Not to pee. Not to cry. Just to… exist.
The trend is called “bathroom campingAnd is gaining strength in as the latest form of self-prescribed therapy.
Users say the refuge helps them to restart the nervous systemescape over-style and recover a few minutes (or hours) of loneliness without disturbance, tells.
“There is nothing to happen In the bathroom, ”says Tiktoker, who assures he makes Bathroom Camping 20 years ago. “It’s just me and me in that bathroom.”
Hendo explains that “camp” when life becomes over-style, whether at a party, at work, or even home alone. For Tiktoker, a few hours in a bathroom cabin cost less than therapy and implies zero judgments.
Other tiktokers share this feeling. “My God, I thought it was just a strange thing I loved to do,” wrote a commentator. “My bathroom It has always been my safe space“.
Another says that Check the bathroom immediately When you move to a new apartment… “for comfort”.
Of course nIn everyone they are enthusiastic with the idea of occupying bathrooms as a form of self therapy. Critics say that the bathroom campers monopolize public toilets, especially at workwhere they are always very disputed.
“If you are not using it and someone knocks on the door, Let us use the room“It begs a user with irritable bowel syndrome.
Still, there are those who argue that for some, it is not merely a fashion: It is a response to trauma. A user shared that he used to camp During the father’s alcoholic fusssbecause your room had no lock. Another, that surpassed panic attacks at night.
The trend is also now drawing the attention of psychologists and mental health specialists.
In an article in, the writer of Psychology of the Media Cynthia Vinney stresses that behaviors such as sitting in the shower or isolates in bathrooms can sometimes signal underlying conditions of depression or anxiety.
Although a bathroom can offer temporary relief, It is not a solution in the long run.
But num world that never coversa locked door and some silence can do a lot. The lights are hard, the floor is disgusting, and no one cares – because it remains the only place where we have permission to be alone.
