Deepika Padukone, who has been actively working towards de-stigmatizing mental illness, spoke about her struggle with mental health.
In a recent interview with Vogue, the Chennai Express star got candid about her anxiety, “It was the most painful thing I have gone through—not just for me, but also for my caregivers. Every day, it takes work to make sure that I don't have a relapse and slip into it again.”
She continued, “But maybe because I have healed, I am now able to say that I'm grateful for the experience because it made me a better person. I learnt a lot from it and it gave me the ability to impact the lives of millions of other people. It allowed me to find my true calling.”
“I don't take it for granted that I have been surrounded by people who, even if they didn't fully understand it, have been empathetic, supportive and patient. But mental health issues still don't get the same sort of understanding as physical ailments do,” Deepika elaborated.
“Human nature is such that you react only to things that you see. This just means that all of us in the mental health space have to work that much harder for it be seen.”
To note, Deepika Padukone’s recent reflection came weeks after she and her husband Ranveer Singh discussed the Impact of mental health on Karan Johar’s Koffee with Karan season 8.
