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An Indian Student’s Battle With Depression

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An Indian Student’s Battle With Depression

An Indian student recounts her recovery from depression.

An Indian Student’s Battle With Depression

Out of the 322 million people living with depression around the world, 56 million are in India, according to the World Health Organization. In this video, Saloni Sharma, a student of Chinese language at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, shares three things that helped her recover from this medical condition, describing how she felt during and after her recovery from clinical depression.