Deepika Padukone
One of the most beautiful divas of Bollywood, Deepika has also recently opened up and shared her traumas that she went through. It was her mother ‘Ujala Padukone’ who spotted her symptoms and asked her to seek medical advice. Deepika was diagnosed with depression in 2014 and since then she has not only helped herself but also encouraged others to come out of their traumas and talk about them.
She observed and noted that the unawareness creates difficulty for people to reach out. According to the ‘World Health Organization’, in India alone 7.5 lac people suffer from some sort of mental illness and.
In the view of the above statement, it inspired Deepika to create a platform for social awareness drives relating to the significance of mental health. In 2015, She set up the ‘Live Love Laugh’ foundation which aims and focusses on mental health issues.
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