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Melissa Burke

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Memoir, Poetry, Fiction

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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 o ...more

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Average rating: 4.04 · 137 ratings · 34 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Poetry and Short Stories by a Bipolar Girl 4.26 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It's Just One Of Those Days 3.43 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	46 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Darkness and the Light 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rigby Literacy Collections Take-Home Library Middle Primary 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Melissa Burke's Blog: Look I have a blog!

Never tell a depressed person to "suck it up"

Ready for a rant? Because here's quite a long rant. Lots of swearing but I added the little * things. Doesn't make much difference though

Today was the second time in a few weeks that I was told to simply move on and stop letting depression get in the way of living my life. To just stop being depressed.

Seriously? Are you that f***ing stupid?

Don't you think if it was that easy, all of us dealing wit Read more of this blog post »

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Published on April 10, 2016 12:04 • Tags: anger, anxiety, bipolar, bipolar-disorder, common-sense, depression, life-lessons, mental-illness, ocd, ptsd, rage, rant

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“Even in the darkest of places, there is light. Never lose hope.”
― Melissa Burke

tags: happiness, hope, inspirational, life-lessons

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“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

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“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer

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“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
― Dale Carnegie

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“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness

tags: regret, regrets, sincerity

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“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini

tags: books, reading

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