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‘Wake up to this mystery illness’
Peter Gruner talks to Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan about a perplexing sleeping disorder suffered by children under stress
27 May, 2021 — By Peter Gruner
Suzanne O’Sullivan. Photo: Jonathan Greet
A LEADING Bloomsbury medical consultant has shone a light on one of the world’s most mysterious illnesses, in which groups of young children sleep, sometimes for more than a year.
Now, in an interview with
Review, Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan, author of
The Sleeping Beauties and other Stories of Mystery Illness, calls for more understanding and compassion for the worrying condition.
She believes that rather than suffering from a biological disease, the children – all primary school-age girls living in Sweden – may be affected by a kind of psychosomatic illness described as “resignation-syndrome”.

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