Smita Deo: A perfect example of how to deal depression by following your passion

A proper Bombay teenage girl who was influenced by her IPS uncle to join the forces to take her passion for cooking into his profession, she is Smita Deo, a well-known chef of our country.

Since his childhood days, she was a cook by excellence but was dreaming a career in Police field but her life was totally changed when she started dating Abhinay Deo and got married to him, who was the son of renown Indian actors Seema and Ramesh Deo, later on, Abhinay Deo became a director and filmmaker in Bollywood and making some amazing films like Delhi Belly, Game, Force 2, Gulaab Gang and Blackmail among others.

Her first impression on her in-laws was like that they thought Smita being a Carter road girl and from a well-maintained family doubted her cooking skills but after 3 days of her marriage, she was in the kitchen preparing meals for the family.

Her mother in law was very supportive and Smita grew a deep friendship with her mother in law and was treated like a daughter there. She used to live in a joint family of her in-laws in Juhu, but when Smita’s own family grew, she shifted into their own apartment in Lokhandwala in mid-2007. Then the downfall in her life started and she started feeling very cut down from everyone as there was on one to talk so that he could share her feelings. He got into a phase of depression and she also gave up her passion for cooking. For the next two years, she was struggling with her depression. But with the suggestion of Dr Vishal Sawant, her psychiatrist, she came out of her low phase and started her business in 2010 by starting a new company Our Little Bit which dealt in the retail of organic and homemade natural products but she was not able to do well in that and it stopped.

But her friends and husband supported her and immense encouragement from her husband made her write a cookbook(book of recipes) which got her back into her passion and she shared the stories of her childhood spent in Karwar in Karnataka.

She also has many cooking videos on a youtube channel named Get Curried. She loves making biryanis and authentic Marathi seafood like she loves Fried fishes.