Black Dog Institute Archives - Karen Tyrrell Author

World Suicide Prevention Day

Let’s unite to bring suicide out of the shadows into the LIGHT of awareness, hope, recovery and prevention. I’m so passionate about suicide prevention and saving people’s lives.

WHY am I so passionate?

I know what it’s like to feel alone, overwhelmed and without hope. Once I experienced dark days in the depths of mania […]

Breaking the Barriers of Mental Illness

Journalist at Her Canberra magazine, Belladonna Took reviewed my memoir ME & HIM: A Guide to Recovery. … Belladonna revealed my tell-all teacher story of how parents at my school terrorized me until I screamed out with MAD night terrors.

“Karen Tyrrell escaped and ran to a lonely motel where police found her, incarcerating her […]

ME & HIM: A Guide to Recovery aids Suicide Prevention

Living is So BIG, an international suicide prevention website published ‘From MADNESS to Recovery’ the story behind my tell-all memoir ME & HER: A Memoir Of Madness and self-help book ME & HIM:A Guide to Recovery.

5% of the sales of ME & HIM will go directly to Black Dog Institute for research into suicide […]

Coming Home: Children’s Book on Depression: Giveaway

As a mental health advocate and teacher I, Karen Tyrrell would like to welcome Australian children’s author Sharon McGuinness to my blog today. Sharon launched Coming Home, her powerful picture book with an uplifting message on depression.

Coming Home delivers a hopeful story about Gemma who watches her dad as he sits alone in his […]