'I can’t feel my heart': children separated under Trump show signs of PTSD, watchdog finds

Children also experience night terrors and separation anxiety, and as adults face greater risks of mental and physical challenges

Separated from his father at the US-Mexico border last year, the little boy, about seven or eight, was under the delusion that his dad had been killed. And he thought he was next.

Other children believed their parents had abandoned them. And some suffered physical symptoms because of their mental trauma, clinicians reported to investigators with a government watchdog.

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