ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2020
Asylum-seeking children with resignation syndrome: catatonia or traumatic withdrawal syndrome?
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- The neurobiology of functional neurological disorders characterised by impaired awareness.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Long-term follow-up of individuals at risk of or who developed resignation syndrome in childhood, were granted residence permits and cared for within the Stockholm region: a register study.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Looking back at resignation syndrome: the rise and fall of a culture-bound endemic.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2025Article
- Trauma-induced Catatonia in Pediatric Patients: Case Series and Literature Review.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2025Article
- Relational ethics in immigrant families: The contextual therapy five-dimensional framework.Family process · 2025Article
- Separation and not residency permit restores function in resignation syndrome: a retrospective cohort study.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Definitive treatment options for pediatric catatonia should include electroconvulsive therapy.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2021Article
- A diagnostic challenge in an unresponsive refugee child improving with neurosurgery-a case report.Oxford medical case reports · 2021Article
- Case Report: Catatonia Associated With Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Taking an Evidence-Based Approach to 10 Common Myths About Catatonia: An Educational Review.Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison PsychiatryReview
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Abstract
In the beginning of the 2000s, an increasing number of asylum-seeking children in Sweden fell into a stuporous condition. In the present study, we report 46 consecutive children with the most severe form of this illness where the children were unable to give any response at all, did not react to pain, cold or touching, could not be supported to sit or stand on their feet, could not do anything when requested, and in most cases had enuresis/encopresis. A minority of the children came from war zones (n = 8, 17.4%). A majority belonged to an ethnic or religious minority (n = 32, 69.6%) in their homeland and almost all were persecuted (n = 43, 93.5%). All had either experienced violence themselves or had witnessed or heard about violence against close family members. The age of onset of the first symptom of illness for boys was 11.2 years [CI 9.6-12.8], for girls 11.8 yrs.[CI 10.4-13.2], and the age for falling into stupor for boys was 12.9 years [CI 11.6-14.1] years and was the same for girls, 12.9 years [CI 11.6-14.2] years. Girls tended to have depression before entering the stuporous condition, while the boys tended to have PTSD first (Chi-square = 3.73, p = 0.054). A majority of the children had one (n = 13, 28.3%) or both parents (n = 14, 30.4%) suffering from mental or severe physical disorder. It is discussed whether the presented condition is a separate entity or if the syndrome should be regarded as a variant of catatonia, and whether benzodiazepines should be tried.
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