Recounting trauma effectively involves facts, feelings, and links to other events.

“when we talk about recounting a stressful or traumatic event if you recall there were three components to it it involved facts about that experience so literally who was there what happened as to the best of our recollection if you recall the second thing it's also about recounting how that experience made you feel at the time and how it makes you feel now and then if you recall the third thing that's critical to include it's about any links or associations between what happened and really anything at all”