It sounds as though they were or still are under a chronic state of light hypnosis. Maybe that was necessary to maintain their sanity.
—
Some have said they were indeed hypnotized deeply so that their feelings were totally suppressed. Maybe necessary for other reasons than simply saving their ‘sanity’ from traveling to the moon.
I highly doubt there is any relationship to what happened with the Apollo guys during their stay on the moon and on their return to kids in a cave.
In fact, there may be no relationship to anything we know publicly, so making any sort of comparison is likely fruitless. There maybe a lot more to the 45 year hiatus than (”its just rocks” “too expensive” “a bored public”) we can imagine. I sometimes have doubts that anyone from any country will ever go back to the moon let alone Mars (for which we had the potential tech in the 60s to travel to in about 3 days, not years).