After talking about her depression, Ms Padukone is now going to help others who suffer it...
Bajirao Mastani star Deepika Padukone will launch a foundation to promote mental health care on March 21 this year, the anniversary of the day she decided to seek help for her own depression. She surprised the industry when she opened up about her illness earlier in the year, but has been candid about it, thus making it far more easy to accept and empathise with.
The positive confession got her plenty of positive feedback from friends, the media and fans everywhere, which encouraged her to start her own foundation to help others with the problem, Live Laugh Love. She has already registered the name.
When she found herself off-kilter during the shooting of Happy New Year, Deepika’s mother Ujjala Padukone had urged her to seek professional help from a family friend, a psychiatrist in Bengaluru, who found that the actress was suffering from anxiety and depression and treated her with counselling and medication.
The 29-year-old actress has had several meetings with mental health specialists and is committed to the cause of mental health in India.
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