Life Overtakes Me
Life Overtakes Me

Life Overtakes Me

January 26, 201939 min6.5EN
Documentary

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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Cast

Henry Ascher
Henry AscherHimself - Pediatrician and Professor, University of Gothenburg (as Henry Ascher MD)
Nadja Hatem
Nadja HatemHerself - Immigration Attorney
Mikael Billing
Mikael BillingHimself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit
Karl Sallin
Karl SallinHimself - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University (as Karl Sallin MD)
Elizabeth Hultcrantz
Elizabeth HultcrantzHerself - Professor Emerita, Linköping University (as Elizabeth Hultcrantz MD PhD)
Gellert Tamas
Gellert TamasHimself - Author and Journalist
Anne-Liis von Knorring
Anne-Liis von KnorringHerself - Child Psychologist, Professor Emerita, Uppsala University (as Anne-Liis von Knorring MD)