Life Overtakes Me

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

6.5
82 votes

Popularity

0.916

Runtime

39 min.

Status

Released

Release Date

1/26/2019

Credits

Life Overtakes Me

Henry AscherHimself - Pediatrician and Professor, University of Gothenburg (as Henry Ascher MD)

Life Overtakes Me

Nadja HatemHerself - Immigration Attorney

Life Overtakes Me

Mikael BillingHimself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit

Life Overtakes Me

Karl SallinHimself - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University (as Karl Sallin MD)

Life Overtakes Me

Elizabeth HultcrantzHerself - Professor Emerita, Linköping University (as Elizabeth Hultcrantz MD PhD)

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