Earlier this year, Deepika Padukone came out and told the world that she has suffered depression. The reason why Deepika said this publicly was to bring awareness to depression and those, who have and had it. It’s also because a close friend of hers and Ranveer Singh took his own life last year due to depression. Earlier this week, Deepika finally launched the foundation that she promised she would. Her NGO titled ‘Live Love Laugh’ has been created to show how important it is to know more about mental health. Through this foundation and her own experiences, Deepika hopes to spread more awareness regarding mental health problems. At the launch was her mother, Ujjala Padukone, who spoke about how her daughter fought depression. Here’s what Ujjala has to say on why she thought Deepika was depressed.
Ujjala on Deepika’s Depression
I detected the symptoms in Deepika and I thought it may be due to some boyfriend issue. But then I knew the depression is due to mental and physical stress and we realized that we should take help from a psychiatrist.