Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone got emotional and cried while talking about her personal struggle with depression at an event in Delhi. Watch video...
Watch video: Deepika Padukone breaks down as she talks about depression
Deepika Padukone breaks down as she talks about depression. Pic/PTI
Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone got emotional and broke down into tears on Monday while talking about her personal struggle with depression as she launched a national public awareness campaign about mental health in Delhi.
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Deepika Padukone said that it was her family, especially her mother, who helped her stay strong and fight through the turbulent time in her life.
Stigma attached to mental ailments is the main reason why the society is struggling to address the problem, and the day we together manage to tide over it and bring awareness, we will "win this battle," Deepika Padukone said at the event.
The 30-year-old actress, who herself battled depression, was speaking at the launch of a nationwide campaign to bring awareness about psychological disorders, on World Mental Health Day.
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#WATCH: Deepika Padukone breaks down while sharing her personal struggle, at national public awareness campaign about mental health in Delhi pic.twitter.com/z09ngrHsOi
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"It is important to realise that the kind of society we live in today, we have become very competitive, and drilled into it, which is a good thing, but, I also think, we have become a little less sensitive to people around us...No one should feel that they do not belong to society," she said.
Sharing her personal struggle with depression, Deepika Padukone broke down during the function, and said, it is important that there is a supporting ecosystem of family and friends that allows the suffering person to cope with the disorder with hope and dignity.
"When I shared my story first, I did not feel any stigma or shame attached to it. And, the reason I came out in the open about it was because I just did not want to feel what I was feeling, I did not let depression to get the better of me," she said.
"So, I think the root cause is stigma. And the day we as a society can together get over that stigma and bring awareness about mental health issues, we will win this battle," she added.
The campaign has been jointly launched by Indian Psychiatric Society, Indian Medical Association and Deepika's Bengaluru-based non-profit foundation, the Live Love Laugh Foundation (TLLLF), under which they would develop outreach programmes to highlight the urgent mental health challenges that India faces.
Deepika, who recently had also become the brand ambassador of the Indian Psychiatric Society, said the campaign was dedicated to all those people who have survived mental illness.
Asked if social media was creating psychological pressure on celebrities, she said, "It is important to nurture, nourish and protect ourselves...And, I wouldn't share what I do about it, as it depends on person to person. But, as my father told me, 'focus on thing in your control and not fret over things which are out of your control'."
Delhi: Deepika Padukone breaks down while sharing her personal struggle, at a national public awareness campaign about mental health pic.twitter.com/hz0gujo7U7
— ANI (@ANI_news) 10 October 2016
Two years back, my family had come to see me. They were about to leave and I was all alone in my bedroom, curled up: Deepika Padukone pic.twitter.com/E8UPNndVdy
— ANI (@ANI_news) 10 October 2016
My mother asked me if everything was okay, I said yes. She asked again if it was work or something else was bothering me, I said no: Deepika pic.twitter.com/JF5nPNWTvy
— ANI (@ANI_news) 10 October 2016
She asked me so many times and I felt myself choking and I broke into tears: Deepika Padukone in Delhi pic.twitter.com/PFG2a0Icpz
— ANI (@ANI_news) 10 October 2016
I want to tell my mother that if it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t be here. Thank you for being with me all through the way: Deepika Padukone pic.twitter.com/iOlQl6iySk
— ANI (@ANI_news) 10 October 2016
Its important to realise that the kind of society we live in today, we have become very competitive,which is a good thing: Deepika Padukone pic.twitter.com/KwE0neS81v
— ANI (@ANI_news) 10 October 2016
But, I also think, we have become a little less sensitive to people around us.No one should feel that they do not belong to society: Deepika pic.twitter.com/sb1NGVcZP8
— ANI (@ANI_news) 10 October 2016
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