We see these long-term physical consequences in the case of Georgi’s when his friends and teacher come to visit him, but he does not have the ability to “process language” (Aviv). We see signs of deterioration of mental health as Georgi’s sickness does not decrease but does not increase. It seen in the article that after four months of sickness Georgi began to drool. This can perhaps signify that Georgi’s stress-caused deterioration state on a long-term impaired the muscle around his mouth. At the Falun hospital, the doctor noticed that Georgi has “no muscle tone in neither arm or leg” (Aviv) and it was difficult to trigger his reflexes. The doctor described the boy in his report as “barely alive”. It is as if as Georgi’s illness, prolonged, it diminishes his will to live more and more. We also see long-term impacts in Djeneta, a girl from Kosovo who had being “bedridden and unresponsive for two years and a half” (Aviv). We can assume that the stress and pressure the government exerted on this girl and her family must have been so intense that it made her enter into a state of illness similar to
We see these long-term physical consequences in the case of Georgi’s when his friends and teacher come to visit him, but he does not have the ability to “process language” (Aviv). We see signs of deterioration of mental health as Georgi’s sickness does not decrease but does not increase. It seen in the article that after four months of sickness Georgi began to drool. This can perhaps signify that Georgi’s stress-caused deterioration state on a long-term impaired the muscle around his mouth. At the Falun hospital, the doctor noticed that Georgi has “no muscle tone in neither arm or leg” (Aviv) and it was difficult to trigger his reflexes. The doctor described the boy in his report as “barely alive”. It is as if as Georgi’s illness, prolonged, it diminishes his will to live more and more. We also see long-term impacts in Djeneta, a girl from Kosovo who had being “bedridden and unresponsive for two years and a half” (Aviv). We can assume that the stress and pressure the government exerted on this girl and her family must have been so intense that it made her enter into a state of illness similar to