I'm Erica. I'm 26 and when I can feel, I enjoy being with my best friend doing what we do best, whatever we come up with in the moment. I work full-time and I'm currently a part-time student in at a local community college for Criminal Justice. I haven't decided exactly where I want that career to take me, but I'm leaning towards either working with special victims in my area, or becoming a lawyer, but ya know...deciding is hard.

I came here because I think this is the first step I need to take in being able to become a better me. I think I've struggled for years with my mental and emotional health, and accepting that is effing hard (excuse my language) but it is, because I grew up with my grandparents who thought the best option wasn't to talk about it, but to keep it to yourself and 'not let our friends at church see what you're going through.'

I've also struggled with my weight for as long as I can remember. I've always been fat, there's no sugar coating it. When you're always told to 'not take too much at family dinner,' or 'not too order too much when we go to restaurants,' you feel like you're just a burden. Nowadays, because I'm still currently living with my mother and her husband, they don't even invite me to go out to dinner with them, and it's really hard to accept that I'm just plain not wanted around.