Two years ago, I started writing my thoughts on the abuse of boys on a blog that I eventually turned into the ShoutTheSilence! website.
It all started six years before the blog, when a close friend confided in me that he had been sexually abused by a relative when he was nine years old. He was suicidal then and I was traumatised and worried that he might take his own life. It took me a long time to get over his story.