Bollywood star Deepika Padukone talked to Harper's BAZAAR about mental health awareness and her own struggles with depression and anxiety.
Her mother’s encouragement jolted Padukone to reach out to an old family friend and therapist, Anna Chandy. Later, she was diagnosed with clinical depression and anxiety.
“I wasn’t aware of what mental illness was, and I didn’t realize the importance of mental health,” Padukone says. “When we have a fever, we know what the symptoms are. Why aren’t we taught to recognize the symptoms of mental illness in the same way? It was a lack of awareness on my part, but also on the part of the people around me. What if it wasn’t for my mother? Who else would have helped me?”
Even after her diagnosis, Padukone reveals that she struggled with the stigma of mental illness. “Typically, in an Indian family, we like to solve our problems internally,” Chandy says, explaining how the culture might keep mental illness awareness at bay. However, receiving open support from her mother changed Padukone's perspective. “She was able to sense that this was not something that can be solved in a family huddle,” Padukone says.
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