It’s been just over 10 years since I’ve really known I had mental health issues that affected my everyday life. I’ve struggled especially when I experienced change in my life. Freshman year of high school and college. When my parents separated. When I graduated college and was job hunting. Up to today, when I moved to LA and started working out here, more recently, working my very first full-time job in social media. I’ve been very lucky in life. I have a close and loving family. I’ve had good friendships (most of which I ruined but still). And thankfully, my sister is pretty normal and she has to amazing sons who I get to spoil and love with all my heart. They are truly what keeps me going most days. Especially the oldest, who quite literally saved my life and saved our family when we were at our lowest. But even with that good, there has been so much bad. I have way too much money in student debt. I am too fat. I don’t wanna be skinny minnie and I’m working on my own fatphobia. I’ve been bigger my whole life and I was taught that it was wrong. But looking back, I was always beautiful. So no, I’m not mad that I’m fat, but I have gotten to the point where it actually is affecting my health. I have trouble even just walking now, and I just wanna get to a point where I can walk/run/even just clean the house without getting so out of breathe. I love my family but they make weight comments about themselves and others that make me feel like shit. So all of this in perspective, I’m hoping that tomorrow, when I take my first pill, a new dawn will break. I finally feel hope again. I finally feel like my mental health wall is going to get taken down, brick by brick. And once that happens, I’ll feel more motivated to lose weight. I’ll feel motivated to go out by myself. Find queer friends. Find queer lovers. Find hobbies and things that excite me. It’s upsetting, but the world is built for skinny, straight, white people. And that will never be me. But I know there are spaces for me. I just need to go find them.