![]() Instead, you see a growing sense of grandiosity, a type of vindictive rage getting acted out.” “That can lead to a kind of invincibility, and rationalizing as ‘they deserved it anyway.’ When the behavior continues, there’s no remorse. “There can be a secondary gain from getting away with it,” she says. Chirban.Īnd that addiction might be feeding the behavior even more. But seven or eight times in the same location? That becomes close to an addiction in some ways, according to Dr. Then, there’s the serial aspect of it: Once or twice could be explained away as a poop emergency. Maybe the laundry pooper is angry about the laziness of others to empty washers in a timely fashion.” “Maybe the lawn pooper is envious of those in that neighborhood. “As with other vandalizing behavior like tire slashing, graffiti, or salting lawns, the motivation is anger or envy,” she explains. But there are some leading thoughts on what’s triggering them. But what’s the drive behind all that hostility? Well, without sitting the serial poopers down in front of a psychologist, all experts can do is speculate. “They’re expressing aggression through an egregious act.”Ī public dump certainly is egregious. And, in many cases like the neighborhood jogger, they don’t even go through any lengths to keep their identity anonymous. Serial poopers, by contrast, are very intentional. (Here's what to do if you get diarrhea on a run.) Now, she says, there are exceptions to the rule, like for those in full-blown psychosis, who may not realize where they are, and people on a bar crawl without access to a public bathroom-but even then, they tend to slip behind dumpsters for some measure of privacy. of Amplify Wellness & Performance in Boston. Not in empty machines, either-the pooper was dumping into clothes that had already been through the wash cycle.Īre these public poopings due to extraordinarily loose bowels? Or are they the ultimate “screw you”? Most likely, it’s the latter, says clinical psychologist Sharon Chirban, Ph.D. ![]() More recently, Southern Illinois University reported on a “bowel movement bandit” who’d pooped in dorm washing machines not just once or twice, but eight times. In September, it was the “mad pooper,” who, when out for her morning jogs-her “morning runs,” if you will- defecated in front yards, on sidewalks, and even in front of a drugstore. Over the past few months, we’ve been introduced to a phrase we thought we’d never hear: the “serial pooper,” which refers to someone who continually poops in public, leaving the fruits of their labor on display for all to see. ![]()
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