Q&A With Dr. Sudeepta Varma

Psychiatrist and Discovery Fit & Health Blogger

To get expert advice for Psych Week, Discovery Fit & Health turned to our resident blogger and psychiatrist Dr. Sudeepta Varma. In addition to writing Mental Wealth, a blog on Discovery Fit & Health, Varma is a psychiatrist, professor and TV consultant to media outlets such as 20/20, the Dr. Oz show, ABC World News, NPR and many more.

We asked her 10 questions for this year's Psych Week, starting with this one:

Q: Recently more celebrities, such as Catherine Zeta Jones, are publicly admitting their struggles with mental illness. Do you think that will encourage more people seek help?

A: We look to celebrities to set the standards on everything from hair styles to handbags; how a celebrity publicly approaches their personal mental health problems are no different.

Celebrities are able to mainstream and normalize these issues by bridging a paradox — that beauty and success can coexist with mental illness. As a psychiatrist, my hope is that the men and women we look up to will continue to shed their sunlight on these often neglected topics.

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