Deepika blasts at Salman Khan's 'luxury' comment on depression - Page 12

Originally posted by: janavii

I am neither a doctor nor anyway related to medicine to know the depths of the topic. I am from Bangalore and is a volunteer in TLLLF. I work with them 4 days every month. We go to very very rural places. We are a 8 members team, of which 2 are psychiatrists, a doctor, 2 counselors 2 PR persons (of which 1 is me and b4 u all jump to PR jaap again, let me clear it to u. as we go to very very rural areas most people will be not willing to talk about their mental health and as Public relation persona, it is our job to explain to them and convince them to just give it a chance to get counselled. After getting counselled they are slotted into 3 categories like Stress, Anxiety, Depression. If they are diagnosed under any of these, they will be asked to come to TLLLF in bangalore for which the expenses will be paid by TLLLF. If they are not willing to come are more than 1 person in that area is in need of the treatment, they allocate a dedicated therapist to that area/people who goes every day from bangalore to treat them. Again for which all expenses were paid by TLLLF. All the treatment along with counselling to medication and whatever takes in the middle will be bared by TLLLF. They never charge single penny from the person who is under treatment. From 2016 January to till datewe covered around 1200 rural/government schools/collages and 800 villages and TLLLF treated around 4000 stress/anxiety/depression persons (out of which 3200 collage/school students) with out taking a single penny from any of them. TLLLF even provide accommodation for the people who come from out of stations freely. TLLLF is run on donations and volunteers. They even are not actively asking for donations.

Bcoz u all hate an actress please not make mockery out of Depression or all the work that goes to run a Non-profit organization.

Deepika had depression or not, she did it for popularity or not I don't care. But after gaining the popularity she wanted, she is still sticking with the cause and spending money from her pocket for the cause she started. You all read once in a while printed article and think that she is doing it for her movie promotions or for some nautanki. But behind the scenes guys, its a continuous process of work. Believe me. Thank u.

Originally posted by: starstruckk

Whether or not Deepika is using mental awareness as a PR is a separate issue, but for Salman to say whatever he said is plain disgusting and ignorant.

His statement is one of the million reasons why a lot of people rather stay silent about depression or any mental health issue they may be facing because you have people with such judgement out there.

Originally posted by: tootyfrooty-

depression is real n when ppl want to take revenge or insult a person they directly take dig on your depression n mock you , i have faced it, a family member did it with me in a fight bcs she knew i was in hospital bcs of depression she directly took dig on it ,for 15 minute she mocked it with smiley face as she is doing such a great thing n as she won by doing this.

when ppl know they r wrong n they dont have anything to say they pic on your weakness n hit on it.

Originally posted by: dabang4life

I am sorry u had to go through that.. I agree depression is real.. hell I've delt with it majority of my life.. but using depression or any other serious illness to promote ur movie... that I've an issue with.. if DP CAME OUT TALK ABOUT IT... when her movie was not releasing... then I might have taken it seriously and believed her.

From what I read... it sounded like salman just like me... brushed it of as a movie promotion.. I did that too..

Originally posted by: Resident_Evil

Thank you. People here talk a whole bunch of stuff just to sound woke and enlightened without knowing the actual facts.

I was given the option of getting on SSRIs but since i had actually seen them in action i would NEVER do it to myself. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and meditation works the best cuz some people are resistant to medicines. And plus the medicines take about 6 weeks to actually start working and then reach a peak so you have to increase the dose. And lets not forget that these drugs are for MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS not for what people are terming here as "depression".

And i may be a medical professional but i am not stupid to not see the fact that the DSM is funded by pharmaceutical companies to encompass as many people as they can just to sell their drugs. I did a whole research paper on the topic and the history of the DSM made me sick.

Originally posted by: Hermione..

What movie Deepika had now?Heck she doesn't even signed one..what is prompting her to talk about it now?