Life Overtakes Me
2019
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.
Rating
Popularity
Origin & Countries
US | en | Sweden,United States of America
Production
Camera Stylo Films
Runtime
39 min.
Status
Released
Release: 1/26/2019
Credits
Kristine SamuelsonDirector
Henry AscherHimself - Pediatrician and Professor, University of Gothenburg (as Henry Ascher MD)
Nadja HatemHerself - Immigration Attorney
Mikael BillingHimself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit
Karl SallinHimself - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University (as Karl Sallin MD)
