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The People You Meet in Real Life
The People You Meet in Real Life
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Meet motivational speaker and mental health advocate Melissa Ann Hopely, who tells a story of courage and hope from the perspective of a young adult who has had personal experience with bullying, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and depression.
Melissa was diagnosed with OCD and depression as a teenager. Although she excelled as an athlete in sports like soccer and softball, she had a difficult time with normal social interactions and relationships. She struggled with obsessive behaviors that made her stand out negatively to others, causing them to bully her at school.
Persevering through years of being bullied, she tried to find her place in the world where she fit in. She also enduring her parents’ difficult and painful divorce, and abandonment by friends who couldn’t cope with her mental illnesses, Melissa started listening to others’ stories. What she found out astonished her:
Everyone has a story.
Everyone feels insignificant at times.
Everyone has challenges.
Everyone will experience both bad and good.
Everything we experience and go through is a part of us, but it doesn’t have to define us.
And, most important: Others have been where you are; you are not alone.
This book tells not only Melissa’s story, and her success, but also the inspirational stories of courage and perseverance of people she has met “in real life”—people like Carolyn, a high school student diagnosed with a brain tumor, Kimberly, a mom whose daughter’s suicide made national television headlines, Lafayette, who has been HIV positive since birth, Jordan, who suffers from depression and bi-polar disorder and tried to take his own life, P-Track, who doesn’t let his Asperger syndrome keep him from dancing; and many others.
Melissa’s positive, encouraging message shines through these stories: We have great power as individuals and as ordinary people working together—power to change other people’s lives and our world for the better.
Melissa was diagnosed with OCD and depression as a teenager. Although she excelled as an athlete in sports like soccer and softball, she had a difficult time with normal social interactions and relationships. She struggled with obsessive behaviors that made her stand out negatively to others, causing them to bully her at school.
Persevering through years of being bullied, she tried to find her place in the world where she fit in. She also enduring her parents’ difficult and painful divorce, and abandonment by friends who couldn’t cope with her mental illnesses, Melissa started listening to others’ stories. What she found out astonished her:
Everyone has a story.
Everyone feels insignificant at times.
Everyone has challenges.
Everyone will experience both bad and good.
Everything we experience and go through is a part of us, but it doesn’t have to define us.
And, most important: Others have been where you are; you are not alone.
This book tells not only Melissa’s story, and her success, but also the inspirational stories of courage and perseverance of people she has met “in real life”—people like Carolyn, a high school student diagnosed with a brain tumor, Kimberly, a mom whose daughter’s suicide made national television headlines, Lafayette, who has been HIV positive since birth, Jordan, who suffers from depression and bi-polar disorder and tried to take his own life, P-Track, who doesn’t let his Asperger syndrome keep him from dancing; and many others.
Melissa’s positive, encouraging message shines through these stories: We have great power as individuals and as ordinary people working together—power to change other people’s lives and our world for the better.
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