Mental health matters! Deepika Padukone reacts to Dwayne Johnson's comment on depression

Deepika Padukone is one of the actors who has never shied away from speaking about her mental health battles. Over the years, Deepika has become the face of mental health in India and has been a constant advocate ofthe same. Recently, the actress reacted to Dwayne The Rock Johnson's statement on mental health.

On Sunday, Deepika shared Dwayne's post about mental health anddepression. "I didn't know what mental health was, I didn't know what depression was. I just knew I didn't wanna be there.'-DWAYNE JOHNSON, The Pivot podcast," Dwayne's post read.

Sharing the post, the Pathaan actress wrote, "Mental health matters."

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In her IG story, she also tagged her mental health foundation, The Live Love Laugh Foundation which helpspeople suffering from anxiety, depression, and other mental health problems.

A few weeks ago, Dwayne opened up about his secret battles with depression. Speaking about the tough phase of his life, the Black Adam star shared how he won the battles and triumphed.

While appearing on the recent episode of The Pivot podcast, the actor revealed that he first felt depressed when he was at the University of Miami where he had injured his shoulder, which kept him from playing on the football team.

"I didn’t want to go to school," he said. "I was ready to leave. I left school. I didn’t take any midterms, and I just left. But the interesting thing, at that time, is I just didn’t know what it was. I didn’t know what mental health was. I didn’t know what depression was. I just knew I didn’t want to be there, wasn’t going to any of the team meetings, wasn’t participating in anything."

Deepika has been very vocal about mental health and depression. Time and again, the actress has bravely talked about her battle and the things she went through during that phaseof her life.

During her appearance on the TV quiz show Kaun Banega Crorepati 13 in 2021, the actress shared, "I was diagnosed with depression in 2014. I used to feel weird that people didn't talk about it. It was a stigma and people don't even know much about it. During that time, I realized that if I am experiencing this, then there would be many other people out there facing depression as well. My ambition in life was that if I could save just one life, then my purpose was solved. We have come a long way now.''

Deepika was last seen in Pathaan alongside Shah Rukh Khan and John Abraham. Currently, she's busy shooting Fighter alongside Hrithik Roshan. The movie is going to be India's first aerial action film. She also has Project K with Prabhas and Amitabh Bachchan.

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