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I'm sorry you're feeling like you can't express your pain with your family and your only safe place now feels violated and unsafe. I have said the same thing because I disagree with the way a lot of my fellow Americans treat people who are different in any way and I'm ashamed. You should be allowed to vent such things in some sort of private space. You've come to the right place to put those thoughts down on the computer screen and let strangers empathize and vent with you.
I hope you're able to get real help in the form of therapy and/or medication, or even just someone in your life who is willing to stand up with you and for you, really soon. In the meantime, you can come here and talk with us whenever you need to. It also may help to start writing in a journal, so you can say anything you need to say and either keep it or get rid of it as you see fit. Once it's on the paper, a lot of the stress you felt is removed from your body.