Narratives of trauma are generally aimed at expressing the depth of pain experienced by victims in an attempt to begin the journey towards healing and the choice of expressions show how close or distant to the victim is the narrative event. This article examines the use of circumstantial elements to prove both authenticity and negotiate how close to the heart the traumatic event is to the victims of trauma in the Anglophone Cameroon Crisis. The data were collected from sixty victims using a convenient sampling technique. Ethnographic approaches, which include semi-open interviews, diary reading, and focus-group discussions, were used. The qualitative research design was used focusing on the circumstantial elements found in the narratives of the victims sampled for this work. Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics was used to analyze the data focusing largely on the use of duration, which involves time and space; manner and cause. This work concludes that by making use of adverbial and prepositional phrases, the victims show a very close relationship with their traumatic experiences as expressed in the exactitude with which they associate these experiences with the time, space, cause, and manner of occurrence. It further suggests that, while handling the socio-political causes of the crisis, attention should be paid to the depth of the wounds inflicted by the crisis in the hearts of the victims through the creation of trauma healing centers and the provision of psychosocial support for all victims.