S5 Ep12: Fight/Flight/Freeze/…Sleep? The Very Real Horror that is Resignation Syndrome

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

There is a strange affliction that only seems to affect a very certain type of person in a very particular place. For children with Resignation Syndrome, recovery depends on restoring hope and a sense of safety, a lifeline that can only come when they’re granted legal entry into their asylum country.

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1:00.8	Stranger, today's episode touches on some difficult topics,
1:04.4	including institutional child abuse, suicide, war, trauma, and sexual assault.
1:10.4	Please take care while listening. Have you ever had a day
1:19.0	where you thought to yourself, I should have just stayed in bed? Or maybe you have had days where you
1:24.6	felt like you couldn't get out of bed in the first place, even if you sort of wanted to or felt you should. Have you ever tried to lift your limbs
1:31.9	only to have them feel leaden and heavy, and then have your eyelids follow suit?
1:39.5	Welcome to strange and unexplained with me, Daisy Egan. I am, admittedly, a very sleepy person,
1:47.0	but even I am able to rouse myself when my personal, professional, or familial responsibilities,
1:52.5	or just my self-respect, demand it. Take, for example, this very morning when I honestly did not
1:59.1	know how I was going to possibly get myself out of bed.
2:02.9	It was only the calendar in my mind with its incredibly long list of to-does that forced me
2:07.8	fairly kicking and screaming out of the comfort of my bed whereupon I fell to the floor,
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