Deepika Padukone honoured with the Crystal Award; talks about her struggle with depression

Deepika Padukone is basking in the glory of her latest release ‘Chhapaak’. The actress has added another feather to her cap as she received the Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on Monday. While receiving the award Deepika spoke about how severe mental illness is as a disease and why she started the Live Love Laugh foundation.

Deepika shared, “Live Love and Laugh exemplify my personal philosophy to life. The foundation aims to provide hope to every person experiencing stress, anxiety and depression.”

The actress further shared how mental health affected her personally and what she has learnt from it, “Mental illness has presented us all with a very tough challenge, but my love-hate relationship with the illness has taught me much. To be patient for one, that you are not alone, but most importantly that there is hope,” she said.

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She ended her acceptance speech saying, “For, in the words of Martin Luther King, everything that is done in this world is done with hope.”

The actress runs The Live Love Laugh Foundation (TLLLF) since June 2015. The foundation’s programs and initiatives include nationwide public awareness and destigmatization campaigns, adolescent mental health programs, funding support for treatment in rural communities, training general physicians in common mental health disorders, research and an annual lecture series featuring the world’s foremost thinkers and achievers.

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