Originally posted by: coldbrew
I've maintained this about Deepika since that week of "repeat after me" chants, so let me reiterate it here too. Like it or not, Deepika has angered a lot of people with her ill-timed "repeat after me" chants. DPad fans might not have found it disgusting but that was the lowest she has ever gone with her cheap self-promotional tricks.
Deepika has also insinuated many times that she went on a depression as a result of her breakup with RK. They shared many mutual friends, her social life, an integral part of being in b'wood, depended on RK's circle and that was cut off from her life suddenly after the breakup, and she was cheated on to boot. She was a "victim" so to speak and it helped her garner public sympathy. A lot of people didn't look at RK in a positive light cuz of that too.
While I won't dismiss DPad's experience with depression, I don't think it was more than a year of taking anti-depressants. People here in the US take anti-depressants when they're going through a stressful period in their lives and it's very, very common. A year of being down and taking anti-depressants to pull your socks up and go through the daily grind does not in any way make them any more or any less of a "pioneer of depression" than others.
What gets to me the most is DPad's self-entitlement on this subject matter--it's extremely ignorant and jarring to the point where you start questioning her experience altogether. It's not nice, but the ways she has adopted to "impart wisdom" does not sit well with me at all. Her foundation might have come from noble intentions but she should leave it to the pros to preach about the subject matter of depression.
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