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mid-day editorial: The great depression needs to be addressed

<p>Engineering student Arjun Bhar&shy;adwaj recently made it to the headlines, but for all the wrong reasons</p>

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Engineering student Arjun Bhar­adwaj recently made it to the headlines, but for all the wrong reasons. The 24-year-old came under the limelight after he jumped off the 19th floor of Taj Lands End, while live streaming his suicide on Facebook. The incident has shocked even an inured city like Mumbai.

Today is World Health Day and the theme for this year, as decided by the World Health Organisation, is depr­e­s­­sion. Fortunately, the city that never sleeps is gradually waking up to ways to combat depression and shedding the stigma associated with it. In fact, several workshops are being conducted across hospitals to create awareness about the same.

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