Deepika advocates Mental Health Awareness with her Speech at Davos, Switzerland!

Deepika Padukone received the Crystal Award for her contributions to mental health awareness. Says, ‘As I speak, one more person has committed suicide’...

Deepika Padukone

Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone has been awarded for advocating mental health awareness. Apart from being an actress, she is a strong and independent woman who has been working hard to create awareness about mental health. 

She has always extended a supporting hand with - the Live Love Laugh Foundation, for those in need for help, however, she says "In the time it has taken me to accept this award, the world has lost one more person to suicide."  

While receiving the Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Deepika Padukone spoke about how severe mental illness as a disease is and why she started the Live Love Laugh foundation. 

She also said her own experience has encouraged her to work for this cause. 

Deepika shared, “Live Love and Laugh exemplify my personal philosophy to life. The foundation aims to provide hope to every person experiencing stress, anxiety and depression.”

Deepika further shared how mental health affected her personally and what she has learnt from it, “Mental illness has presented us all with a very tough challenge, but in my love-hate relationship with the illness has taught me much. To be patient for one, that you are not alone, but most importantly that there is hope.”

Deepika ended her acceptance speech quoting the famous words of Martin Luther King and said, “For in the words of Martin Luther King, everything that is done in this world is done with hope.” 

Deepika Padukone runs The Live Love Laugh Foundation (TLLLF) since June 2015. The foundation’s programs and initiatives include nationwide public awareness and destigmatization campaigns, adolescent mental health programs, funding support for treatment in rural communities, training general physicians in common mental health disorders, research and an annual lecture series featuring the world’s foremost thinkers and achievers.

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