On the day after her eighteenth birthday, Kara Stroup told her mother about her seven-year struggle with an eating disorder.
Four years later, on September 15, 2015, just after National Suicide Prevention Week ended, Stroup shared her battle publicly on Owl Sports, encouraging those who are dealing with depression to seek help and talk to someone.
She hasn’t stop speaking since.
Stroup detailed the events after revealing her eating disorder, including being placed in an outpatient therapy program and two trips to the emergency room.
“Since then, I have grown accustomed to mostly good days and rarely bad ones, but I am a constant work in progress, and I always will be,” Stroup wrote in September.