> Resignation Syndrome seems to reliably and rapidly abate once the threat of deportation is removed. Is that because a massive stressor is removed and mental h

> Resignation Syndrome seems to reliably and rapidly abate once the threat of deportation is removed. Is that because a massive stressor is removed and mental health can be regained? Or is it because a pretense can be lifted once the threat of deportation is removed? I wonder why people think that there is must be a hard cutoff between these 2. You can create a very temporary OCD with "trauma" in video games. That's entirely fictional and voluntarily (literally done for fun) and yet you can clearly see the effects for a few hours after the video game session stops. It lasts longer when repeated. So here's a theory: there's a long, very slow sloping grey zone between definite OCD and entirely faked and a million gradations between the two. The longer the faking lasts the more real it becomes.