Deepika Padukone breaks down while speaking about her struggle with depression

Actress Deepika Padukone recently attended the national public awareness campaign about mental health in Delhi, where she spoke about her struggle on getting through depression and how she wants people out and deal with it.

The actress visited NDTV studios on World Mental Health Day and spoke about how things have changed in the last year since she’s opened up about her battle with depression. She revealed that she was battling through depression in 2014 while filming for ‘Chennai Express’. Deepika had also launched ‘The Live Love Laugh Foundation’, which is dedicated to creating awareness about mental health and help those who are struggling with depression.

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Speaking on how her opening up about depression has encouraged people to speak up, Deepika broke down and said, “In the last one and a half year, when I step out, people come to me and share that they have connect and felt the same way. They say earlier they were reluctant to speak out, or families were not supportive. That has changed.”

Further talking helping people, she says, “I knew I felt different and odd. But to have someone who could help me and guide me was the intervention which I needed. Someone else needs that too.”

Also present to accompany Deepika at the event were Deepika’s parents Prakash and Ujjala Padukone and sister Anisha.

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