Melissa Burke
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Melissa Burke (27) lives in Massachusetts with her family (including her 2 chickens). She is a shift captain at her local animal shelter and a volunteer at Buttonwood Park Zoo. Melissa likes to take care of animals, watch movies/TV shows, knit, read and.... more
(Follow on twitter at https://twitter.com/MelissaBurke92)
Melissa Burke (27) lives in Massachusetts with her family (including her 2 chickens). She is a shift captain at her local animal shelter and a volunteer at Buttonwood Park Zoo. Melissa likes to take care of animals, watch movies/TV shows, knit, read and write.
Melissa has been living with depression/bipolar disorder, ADHD, an on-and-off eating disorder, OCD and anxiety for most of her life, and now PTSD as well. With some of her books, she tries to shine light on mental illness to show not only what life is like for people suffering from it, but also to show that people with mental illness aren't crazy. She establishes these ideas most prominently in her third book "The Darkness And The Light" which consists of personal journal entries from 2010-2014 with a few poems in between. She's helped a few people so far and hopes to continue to do so. Though she is on the path to recovery, it's a slow and bumpy process with a few relapses along the way. But she tells people to stay strong and never lose hope, and she's trying to do so with herself.