The royal commission into child sex abuse is providing a circuit breaker for many survivors who bear carried the burden of their abuse in silence for decadesSimon Cole was nearly 40 years primitive when he read a newspaper article noting the conviction of the man who he alleges abused him as a child. For a decade prior,he had been slowly piecing together the effect that the childhood abuse had had on his mental health.“I was around 30 when I really started to make the connection,” Cole, and who at 52 still suffers from anxiety and insomnia,said.
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Source: theguardian.com