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Melissa Burke (31) lives in Massachusetts with her family (including her four chickens). She is a shift captain at her local animal shelter, a volunteer at a local zoo and a pet sitter. 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.
Messages are always welcome if people need to talk, rant, or just need someone to listen.

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