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Hyderabad: 42% corporate workers suffer depression

Depression being the next big epidemic to hit our country and the world, actress Deepika Padukone is sounding the alarm now.

Hyderabad: Depression being the next big epidemic to hit our country and the world, actress Deepika Padukone is sounding the alarm now. Speaking on ‘Making mental wellness a boardroom priority’ at the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) on Wednesday at HICC Hyderabad, she said we must speak out more about mental illness. “For people who are experiencing depression, you feel weight, you are not able to think straight and it is sort of clouded. Everything seems like a burden, everything seems like a job. You are not motivated to do anything and there is no drive and you know that you are not being yourself,” she said, speaking from experience, having gone through a period of depression in 2015.

It was her mother’s intervention at the right time that helped her. “It can happen for various reasons. It is not easy to identify the symptoms of depression and it is not possible to pinpoint the cause,” said the founder of Live Love Laugh Foundation which works to create awareness about mental illness.

Deepika speaks about her tussle with depression publicly. She said she realised the stigma attached to mental illness only when she faced it herself and so decided to speak out. “I want people to know what happened second by second so they can also come out. If I am able to save even one life, I will feel my job is done.”

She recommends that people see a psychologist or counsellor and take the prescribed medicine, but often it is life style change that can help the most, she said..

She said 42.5 per cent of corporate employees suffer from depression. “It is important to have a psychologist and counsellor in any company. I want to make it mandatory for everyone to reach a counsellor in my own little organisation.”

( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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