Signs in Children:

• Anger and aggressiveness
• Any extreme changes of behaviour or moods
• An unhealthy attachment to a single person
• Anxiety and hypervigilance
• Avoiding changing in front of people, dressing out for gym class, swimming or other activities where more than normal skin is exposed
• Being overly compliant with requests, directions and physical contact. Or a “fawn” response
• Bleeding in the genitals or rectum. Other signs of damage, infections, or other injuries in genitals
• Compulsive masturbation
• Depression symptoms. Lethargy, sadness, hopelessness, or numbed out mood.
• Developmental regression (Ex: bed wetting or language regression)
• Displaying inappropriate sexual behaviour
• Disrupted/disordered eating patterns
• Fear of specific places, people or events (Ie a holiday)
• Fear of any physical contact, especially with specific body parts
• Flashbacks and Panic attacks
• Hyperactivity (often mistaken for ADHD)
• Inappropriate interest in sexual material
• Inattentiveness, trouble in school often seen as a learning disability
• Maladaptive daydreaming, spacing out, “spells” or dissociative behaviours
• Medical issues with no known cause (headaches & nausea common)
• Pain when walking, sitting and/or using the bathroom
• Resistance to following directions and leaders. Sometimes diagnosed as ODD or similar disorders, though generally, this stems from mistrust
• Searching compulsively for approval
• Self-injurious behaviour like headbanging. In young kids may not look like typical self-harm
• Severe nightmares
• Social withdrawal/isolation. Dropping out of clubs or sports they once enjoyed
• Wearing clothes that are not seasonally appropriate. Like many layers when it’s warm outside

Signs in Teens:

• Acting out that seems random, including petty theft or getting into fights
• Addiction to alcohol, drugs or pornography
• Avoiding school or Home
• (C-)PTSD symptoms
• Drop in school performance
• Eating disorders
• Lack of trust in others
• Low self esteem
• Mood Swings
• Outbursts of rage
• Risky sexual behaviour
• Running away
• Self-harm. (Cutting, burning or skin picking)
• Suicidal ideation or suicide attempts
• Telling stories about a “friend” or “somebody i know” having experienced sexual violence

Signs in Adults:

• Addiction
• Anger that won’t leave with periodic outbursts 
• Anxiety disorder symptoms
• Asthma and other respiratory ailments
• Avoidance of intimacy or compulsive need for emotional intimacy 
• Chronic pain (Musculoskeletal skeletal, headaches & pelvic)
• Concentration issues 
• Exaggerated fight/flight/freeze/fawn responses
• Extreme emotional reactions that feel as if they are responding to something you can’t place
• Depression 
• Difficulties with trusting others
• Disordered Eating & Eating Disorders
• Dissociation, depersonalization and derealization 
• Feeling as if your an adult but still a child at the same time 
• Gastrointestinal symptoms/distress
• Habitual engagements in dangerous sexual behaviour
• Hypervigilance 
• Hypersexuality and/or Sex repulsion 
• Insomnia and other sleep issues 
• Poor self-esteem and unstable self-identity 
• C-PTSD/PTSD symptoms (explanation of PTSD here)
• Self-harm 
• Sexual dysfunction
• Somatization and somatic flashbacks 
• Suicidal ideation or suicide attempts
• Volatile interpersonal relationships