How do child actors exposed to gruesome scenes (like murder on a horror film) not get traumatized/PTSD?

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How do child actors exposed to gruesome scenes (like murder on a horror film) not get traumatized/PTSD?

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I am too lazy to really do the research, but Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining comes to mind. The child actor didn’t know what was going on. The one with PTSD was Shelly Duvall.

Except for sexual abuse by adults not related to the movie, it’s the adults who get fucked over.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film))

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