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“In Sweden hundreds of migrant children, facing the possibility of deportation, have been diagnosed since the 1990s with what is known locally as resignation syndrome. Some remain inert for years.” (The Economist, Oct 24, 2018)
“This [Resignation syndrome] is a disorder that causes an impenetrable comatose state, but where there is no disease to explain it…. Until very recently, people with this syndrome came exclusively from families seeking asylum in Sweden.” (The Guardian, April 12, 2021)
Hypnos, too, traveled in a stateof nether, the waters of Lethe lappingat his feet as he nestled between Dreamingand Death, hidden from creeping daylightby a sweet oblivion, a magical suspensionbetween worlds. A deep away.His statue once stood in a hall of Gods.We saw him there: mute, marble, winged,