Deepika Padukone Says She Was Not Afraid To Fail

Hindi film actress Deepika Padukone, who is also the founder of The Live Love Laugh Foundation, recently said she was not afraid to fail and talk about the way she feels.Deepika says she believes that success and failure are all part of life. “Everybody fails at one point in their life. I am at a stage in my life where I have been through everything,” she said.She was speaking on ‘Making mental wellness a boardroom priority’ at the World Congress on Information Technology and Nasscom India Leadership Forum in Hyderabad yesterday.

Deepika shared her experiences with depression and gave tips to technologists on how to overcome it.In chat with Nasscom Vice-Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer Wipro Rishad Premji, she said that depression is going to be the next big epidemic.Deepika advised all IT companies to have counsellors and psychiatrists to help the employees who may be suffering from depression.Recalling her fight with depression, the actress said she was not afraid of being judged when she opened up about the problem. It’s okay to have moments of weakness, okay to break down and okay to cry. It’s okay if you don’t look great all the time, she said.

About the many episodes of breaking down, she said one day when her parents were returning to Bengaluru after visiting her, she broke down in front of her mother, who understood the problem and reached out to a counsellor.If my mother had not understood the problem, I would not have got the intervention.