• Survivors commonly report that disturbing images, sounds, tastes, or smells, and unwanted memories "pop" into their minds. 
  
  
• They feel themselves reliving the traumatic event at least in part, and they experience all the emotions which they did during that event.
  
  
• For spells these unpleasant memories and images lie dormant but may resurface when the individual is:
• stressed for some other reason. 
• physically unwell or "run down".
• faced with unavoidable reminders of the trauma.
  
  
• These reminders may come in the fashion of:
• legal proceedings.
• media coverage.
• reports of similar events. 

NB:       At about a year after the initial trauma, survivors may experience the "anniversary reaction"; a time when many of the unpleasant memories and feelings return.