#DobaraPoocho: Deepika Padukone launches powerful mental health awareness campaign

Deepika Padukone has at all times been a robust advocate of psychological well being consciousness, and has finished intensive work in the direction of the identical with The Live Love Laugh basis, the psychological well being organisation she has based. The 34-year-old actor has now launched a robust marketing campaign: #DobaraPoocho, urging individuals to pay extra consideration to their family members, and continuously communicate with them, asking about their struggles and psychological well being points.

The Padmaavat actor took to her instagram account and posted a brief video that delivers the message of how one ought to care extra for his or her family members and continuously check out them. The video captioned, “Now more than ever we need to be sensitive and support the emotional needs of those around us…”, follows 4 tales of mates, brothers, a pair and a father and son, and in each on the spot every little thing appears to be okay, till the opposite particular person asks if every little thing is okay, and that they need to know if one thing is bothering the opposite. After some convincing, the opposite particular person (who’s going by means of some problem) speaks up and let’s the tears move. The four-minute video is a tear-jerker for positive, and increasingly celebrities are coming ahead to talk about the significance of psychological well being particularly after actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s sudden dying by suicide that not solely shook Bollywood, however all of India.

 

Through the marketing campaign, Dobara Poocho, Deepika appears to be urging individuals to maintain checking up on their liked as soon as even when they guarantee you that they’re okay, and in addition sheds mild on the truth that psychological well being points and sicknesses are nonetheless taboo subjects in our society, and folks draw back from speaking about such topics. Last week, Deepika had additionally launched a video together with Dr Shyam Bhatt and Dr Soumitra Pathare about suicide prevention, speaking about why individuals might do it after they do. The caption to the video learn, “#SuicidePrevention. While I embarked on this journey more than 5 years ago, recent tragic events have made us all realise that now more than ever, we need to prioritise mental health and intensify our focus on #SuicidePrevention.”

 

Deepika’s intensive work in the direction of the unfold of consciousness concerning psychological well being has additionally gotten her the Crystal Award on the World Economic Forum for spreading consciousness in regards to the significance of psychological well being.

Through her basis, that she began in June 2015 after going by means of despair herself, Deepika has launched a number of nationwide consciousness campaigns within the hopes of decreasing the stigma of speaking about psychological well being.

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