Stressed-out students seek solace in toilet graffiti

Edinburgh Napier University researcher spends 10 months studying bathroom scribblings and concludes the often supportive messages are valued by learners

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June 20, 2024
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June 20, 2024
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A toilet with a montage of different graffiti writing over the image to illustrate Loo graffiti offers campus solace
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#1 Submitted by stefan.... on June 20, 2024 - 8:14am
As a psychotherapist, I think the idea suggested in the article - that the University provide a space where students can write messages - may be wrongheaded as it doesn't take into account the possibility that it being an illicit and secretive place to write the messages is a factor in why people choose to write them there. The fact that it is in the toilet - the place where it is legitimate to expel our dirty and shameful matter and seems significant.

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