Life Overtakes Me

Life Overtakes Me

3.3 |
0h 39min

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Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden, who have fled with their families from extreme trauma, have become afflicted with 'uppgivenhetssyndrom,' or Resignation Syndrome. Facing deportation, they withdraw from the world into a coma-like state, as if frozen, for months, or even years.
Life Overtakes Me

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Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden, who have fled with their families from extreme trauma, have become afflicted with 'uppgivenhetssyndrom,' or Resignation Syndrome. Facing deportation, they withdraw from the world into a coma-like state, as if frozen, for months, or even years.

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Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas, John Haptas, Bonni Cohen, John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, Kristine Samuelson, Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas,

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