'Chronic survival abandonment syndrome' that a child suddenly falls asleep as it happens occurs only in Sweden

A shocking event triggered a sudden appearance of many children in Sweden that were not awake from sleep. It is pointed out that immigration policy has a big influence on the recovery of this symptom named " Resignation Syndrome " (nausea syndrome, abandoned survival syndrome).

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In Sweden, in the past 20 years, many children with gait syndrome have appeared. The characteristic of the resignation syndrome is that it stopped walking and talking, and in some cases, even stopping opening the eyes. And I know that this symptom has the characteristic of "occur only in children of families who want asylum".

BBC covered a girl "Sophie (kana)" protected by residential facilities for refugees located in the central part of Sweden. Sophie who got up with sleepy syndrome continues to sleep in bed, I can not eat anything, I am supplying nutrition from the nose with a tube.

The family of Sophie is an asylum woman born in the former Soviet Union, and came to Sweden in December 2015. Sophie's father was stopped by a guy in uniform of a police officer in September 2015 driving a car in his hometown. And the man pulled Sophie's father and mother out of the car and hit him. Sophie in the car was watching this situation.

Since the man freed Sophie's mother, her mother hugged Sophie and ran away from the scene, but he said that his father was held in place. Sophie's father has lost his memory since that time and he does not know what happened.

Mother and Sophie who ran away to the acquaintance's house, Sophie was shaken terribly and cried, "I went searching for a dad," and was kicking the wall. He seems to be able to contact his father three days later, and the Sophie family hid himself in the acquaintance's house and arrived in Sweden three months later.

Sophie's condition worsened shortly after being arrested by the police after arriving in Sweden, Sophie stopped playing with her sister. Sophie who heard the family "immediately can not stay in Sweden" report along the border soon said that Sophie stopped talking and eating from this point.

According to Doctors of the World's doctor Elizabeth Hulkrants, Sophie's blood pressure is normal. When BBC visited he said that Sophie might be reacting to visitors as the pulse was a bit high. As Sophie never opens her mouth, Dr. Hulkrants is worried about the danger of suffocation death if trouble occurs in the nutrition supply tube.

Many medical professionals who have seen children with a resignation syndrome say they agree that shocking events are the reason why children have stopped communicating with the outside world as a result of sleeping. It seems that children who have experienced severe violence against their parents or have experienced their families escaping from a serious and unstable environment are getting upset.

Although the mechanism of the resignation syndrome is not clearly understood, it has also been confirmed that it recovers from symptoms by getting out of an unstable environment. "The most persuasive explanation is that there are social and cultural factors for the disease to develop," said Dr. Karl Sarin of Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital in Stockholm.

According to the BBC, the Nazi Holocaust had confirmed similar diseases as the resignation syndrome. However, to the best of Dr. Sarin 's knowledge, there are no examples of occurrence of gait syndrome in recent years other than Sweden, so it is not clear why it occurs only in Sweden.

According to a survey by the National Insurance Committee in Sweden, the number of children with gait syndrome has decreased in the past 10 years, 169 cases remain from 2015 to 2016. In addition, it seems that there is also a view that giving up syndrome "infects" because it is observed that the number of children with gave up syndrome increased in the same area after reporting that when gave up syndrome was discovered for the first time in 1998.

Dr. Lars Dougson, who is in charge of Sophie, is thinking that the key to recover from the resignation syndrome is "security" and accelerating that process is "permanent residence". "Children have some kind of hope in some way and they have to feel living, that is the only way to explain the reasons for changing the situation in all the cases I have seen so far "Dr. Duckson said.

So far, in Sweden families with children with gait syndrome were allowed to stay in Sweden. However, about 300 thousand migrants have flowed into Sweden over the past three years, and it is said that a change has occurred in the emotional feelings of the citizens of immigrants. The provisional law came into force in 2017, restricting the grant of permanent residence rights to asylum seekers, and changed to grant visas for 3 to 13 months. And the temporary visa given to the Sophie family will be revoked in March 2019. Dr. Dougson is wondering if Sophie can recover within 13 months.

Annika Karishima, a social worker at Greening Health, who supports the difficult situation of all children, said, "I think that this disease is related not to the fact of exile but to the previous trauma."

According to Karishimaer, the first step in restoring children who are suffering from gait syndrome is "to separate from their families". I will always explain the situation to my family, but it seems to be important first to make a situation where the child depends on the staff. Children are training and eating sweet things, and they train to regain the feeling that they have forgotten. Furthermore, it is strictly prohibited to talk about "immigration process" in front of children.

In Greening Health, who breaks contact with parents and helps complete recovery until they can talk on the phone, the longest time it took to recover from grievous syndrome was six months about. If you are a greening / health recovery program, you may be able to restore Sophie within time limit.