Leeds nurse and mum's mission to help families affected by suicide after her husband and daughter took their own lives
Sadly, Karen Sykes knows all too well the “complex, multi-layered grief” that she says comes from being bereaved by suicide.
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The 54-year-old, who works as a head of nursing at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, lost her husband Ian to suicide in 2015 and then, devastatingly, four years later, her youngest daughter Beth took her own life at the age of 26.
She describes the tragedies as having changed her as a person, as she now navigates through a “very very difficult world” but said she has found solace in reaching out to others who have suffered similar losses.
