rissa's 29 year's old and originally from portland. she's the baby of her family of four, and was an unexpected child so she usually gets the brunt of everything. she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and generalized anxiety disorder when she was a teenager and went to counseling and given medication for it. she used to tongue her meds because she didn't want to feel different for being herself, but her mother caught on and administered them to her. after a while, she felt better and weened herself off her own medication and started self medicating. she met a guy who was extremely toxic for her but he promised her the world and she was naive enough to believe him. flash forward to a pregnancy scare and her getting cleaned around twenty, then the two of them having their on and off romance. eventually, around four years ago she did get pregnant and it was the best thing that happened to her, she's now working as a bartender and is a co-owner of a jewelery business. she's back on her medication and is going to therapy, and getting her life on track.