Obsessed with Mermaids and Living as a “Merman”

    

22-year-old Eric Ducharme — the latest subject of TLC’s “My Crazy Obsession” — says he has been obsessed with mermaids for as long as he can remember. So obsessed, in fact, that he now lives his life as a “merman” in Florida. He says it’s his “lifestyle.”

Ducharme says that he eats, sleeps and breathes mermaids, and he dresses up and acts like one whenever he gets the chance. “It’s a lifestyle. It’s a path in life that I have chosen,” Eric says. “When I put on a tail I feel transformed … I feel like I’m starting to enter into a different world when I hit the water.”

“Being under water I feel, I’m just totally away from the world,” he explained. “It’s taken me a really long time to kind of understand my place in life.”

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