Traumatised 1970s School Kids

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The "Thin Man Syndrome" exists, so it does. I remember it too but the funny thing is this scene (see video below) never scared me at all. It just scared the absolute c**p out of hundreds of other 1970s and 80s school kids. This fear became a phenomenon, with people suffering nightmares.
"The Boy From Space" was simply a "Look And Read" for schools, educational drama, shown on a CRT T.V. set. Someone here comments.

"It would have been around 1983 when I was 6 and at infact school, the teacher would wheel out this big TV and put Look and Read on once a week. I remember this clip, and a scene where a shadow was cast as someone was walking slowly up a staircase, thinking it was the Thin Man. I was traumatised watching it; should never have been subjected to it at that age, it had nothing to do with learning!"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5zIbEoGRt-Q

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"The Thin Man", as they call him (rather than the more accurate "The Embodiment Of All That Is Unholy And Evil"), haunted my nightmares for WEEKS as a child. When I went to sleep I would have to clear a path from the bed to the door, so that when I turned the light off at the switch by the door I could leg it back into bed as quickly as was humanly possible so The Thin Man didn't get me. The fucker was TERRIFYING. Not only did he look like that, but he spoke by just holding his mouth open, and sounds not of this earth would fall out. Also he walked in slow motion: not slowly as such, but the film was slowed down just enough to make it look unnatural without an eight-year-old audience knowing exactly how. Why would you do that to a child?"

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In the 1970s, they used to show horror films around 23.00 p.m. on Friday nights. Normally they didn't scare me. I can still remember those that made an impression, such as "The Shuttered Room" with Oliver Reed. For some reason, the one that did terrify me was "Straightjacket" with Joan Crawford. I spent a week, looking under the bed, checking the wardrobe, terrified some screaming woman would come at me with an axe. I since learned about myself that my childhood fears were pathologically based. Asperger referred to this, stating the children he was treating didn't show pathological foreboding. I also learned Kretschmer stated such childhood fears and apprehension (when pathological) tend to go into the opposite phase later in adulthood. That is, apathy, low emotion, no normal fearful reaction.
So, these days horror films don't scare me, although I avoid those with excessive violence.

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I can't watch horror. I have enough trouble sleeping without that!
I was traumatised a very long time ago and have never got past it. I have C-PTSD.

It makes me mad that the medical establishment refuses (by and large) to acknowledge C-PTSD as opposed to PTSD.
There's a world of difference.