Among the many celebrities who have spoken out about their struggles with mental health is Shaheen Bhatt, who hasn’t shied away from talking about experiencing bouts of anxiety and depression since she was a child. Now, she has spoken about how the experience gets worse when people, especially close friends and family, don’t understand the issue and become dismissive about it.
On your mental health platform ‘Here comes the Sun’, In a conversation with singer-songwriter Ananya Birla, the author talked about how she treats people who disregard mental health.
“For me, it depends on how close the person is. For example, if it’s on social media, I usually don’t participate because I realize that someone else’s opinion of me, my mental health, or mental healthIn general, it’s none of my business. It’s their thing,” she said.
And she added that if, on the other hand, it is someone close to her or “someone with whom I have to constantly relate”, then her instinct is to “report where she can”.
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However, Shaheen Bhatt added that she feels it is not necessary for a person to understand what she is going through. “If he’s someone close to me, then you don’t have to believe it, you don’t have to understand it, just support it,” he added.
Previously, he had opened up about experiencing a panic attack in over seven years and how “it feels like I’m dying.”
“I had my first panic attack in seven years, just a month and a half ago. And she had completely forgotten how to deal with them because she hadn’t had one for a long time,” she told Ananya.
He said that before he faced panic attacks quite regularly and had therefore created an established system to deal with it, “but this time I was… it took me completely by surprise,” he added.
“The thing about a panic attack is that it feels like you’re dying…you don’t realize it’s just panic, or is this just [the] nervous system in overdrive, which is what it is,” the 33-year-old added.
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