[When time stops... Psychiatric reactions to deportation orders of unaccompanied children and teenagers seeking asylum].
Five cases of psychiatric disturbances in unaccompanied children who were refused political asylum are described. The children showed severe reactions with suicidal thoughts or psychosis, with a characteristic loss of perception of time during the long period of waiting for a decision. These children with severe reactions constituted a minority of the total who were refused asylum.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000296:Adolescent Psychiatry; D002648:Child; D002665:Child Psychiatry; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012036:Refugees / Q000523:psychology*; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology*; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D000092864:Suicide Prevention