Trauma is the only way to break a human which is why it is a part of MKULTRA, especially during childhood. Trauma can actually be beneficial too but when consciously utilized against someone it is very hard to recover from without some super-duper knowledge I am unaware of.
So [they] break you down until your personality is obliterated and then build you up the way they want. We have all been subjects of it through Hollywood and MSM. Horror movies are a huge part of it.
I remember coming home alone from school and at 3pm Nightmare on Elm St is playing on a free channel and it was the part where the naked nurse or something murders or gets murdered I don't remember that clearly. Why was that shit on at that time when those networks are aware that kids would be coming home at that time and flipping through channels to watch?