Stranger, today's episode touches on some difficult topics, including institutional child abuse,

suicide, war, trauma, and sexual assault. Please take care while listening.

Have you ever had a day where you thought to yourself, I should have just stayed in bed?

Or maybe you have had days where you 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 only to have them feel leaden and heavy,

and then have your eyelids follow suit?

Welcome to strange and unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.

I am, admittedly, a very sleepy person, but even I am able to rouse myself when my personal,

professional, or familial responsibilities, or just my self-respect, demand it. Take, for example, this very

morning when I honestly did not know how I was going to possibly get myself out of bed. It was only

the calendar in my mind with its incredibly long list of to-does that forced me fairly kicking

and screaming out of the comfort of my bed, whereupon

I fell to the floor, slithered into my office, and sat at my cluttered desk, choking

back tears as I looked at the 57 tabs I have open on one of the five different internet

windows I have going currently.

These are not, I assure you, exaggerations, and pulled up one of the

three scripts I'm working on, all the while wondering when I'll be able to get back into bed.

It's going to be a long day. But mine are problems of my own making. The same cannot be said

for the children I'll be talking about today,

who, through no fault of their own, have been forced into such stressful situations that their

bodies just shut down, sending them into a prolonged, deep sleep, doomed Disney princess type of

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