'Resignation Syndrome' was first reported in Sweden in the 1990s after children of families applying for refugee status collapsed into a catatonic state and remained vegetative for years. There is no Hungarian equivalent to this psychiatric illness yet.
The new documentary, 'Life Overtakes Me', on Netflix, follows the story of three refugee families whose children developed resignation syndrome as a result of their traumatic experiences.
A 2016 study in Behavioral Neuroscience described resignation syndrome as ‘a gradual decline following a depressive state to a condition in which artificial nutrition is no longer required and the patient does not respond to painful stimulation’.
As the syndrome is a response to extreme stress, Luise Newman, a psychiatry professor at the University of Melbourne, says that when the child can't cope with what's happening, his/her brain shuts down, or actually hibernates. Since first recognised in Sweden in 1998, hundreds of cases have been reported.
According to Dr Lilla Hárdi, medical director/psychiatrist/psychotherapist and director of the Cordelia Foundation, ‘in a family, the child is often the main symptom, meaning that trauma to the whole family appears in her symptoms’.
Professionals are currently working on a treatment protocol, but the complexity of the disorder has made it difficult to develop.
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