14 yrs old // self harming

so I'm 14 and I've been self harming for a while now and i feel like i need to tell someone. some of my friends know but in a sense they don't know, because they don't know what it is like. i started self harming around the time my dad left, which was also pretty close to my birthday and he left almost two years ago now. i guess i have a few 'problems' as i guess my mum would say. first is that i hate my stepdad almost as much as much as my dad. i feel like i might be bipolar as i have suffered those sort of symptoms but I'm too scared to tell someone. I'm also too scared to tell someone about how i feel as though i have Gender Dysphoria which is where I'm super uncomfortable in my biological gender. As well as the fact that I'm too scared to tell someone about my self harming.

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