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A sad story from the good people at the Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/refugee-children-sweden-coma-like-states-families-deported-uppgivenhetssyndrom-resignation-syndrome-a7662126.html
Refugee children in Sweden are falling into coma-like states on learning their families will be deported
Resignation syndrome, or uppgivenhetssyndrom, has been diagnosed in 60 children this year
"In 2016, 60 children were diagnosed with the syndrome, which sees patients rendered “totally passive, immobile, lacks tonus, withdrawn, mute, unable to eat and drink, incontinent and not reacting to physical stimuli or pain,” according to medical journal Acta Pædiatrica.
The children are left bedridden or have to be moved in wheelchairs and feeding must be done through a tube.
Tests which gained a response from people in comas did not work on the afflicted children, but other exercises showed they suffered no brain damage.
It was described by some doctors as “willed dying” and often occurred after families were denied asylum status and thrown into uncertainty.
A similar phenomenon was observed in Nazi concentration camps, the New Yorker reported, in prisoners who had effectively lost all hope and given up."
Refugee children in Sweden are falling into coma-like states on learning their families will be deported
Resignation syndrome, or uppgivenhetssyndrom, has been diagnosed in 60 children this year
"In 2016, 60 children were diagnosed with the syndrome, which sees patients rendered “totally passive, immobile, lacks tonus, withdrawn, mute, unable to eat and drink, incontinent and not reacting to physical stimuli or pain,” according to medical journal Acta Pædiatrica.
The children are left bedridden or have to be moved in wheelchairs and feeding must be done through a tube.
Tests which gained a response from people in comas did not work on the afflicted children, but other exercises showed they suffered no brain damage.
It was described by some doctors as “willed dying” and often occurred after families were denied asylum status and thrown into uncertainty.
A similar phenomenon was observed in Nazi concentration camps, the New Yorker reported, in prisoners who had effectively lost all hope and given up."