Shaheen Bhatt is a famous writer and the younger sister of Bollywood star Alia Bhatt. Shaheen has battled mental health issues in the past and has long spoken out about them. During a recent discussion at the MTV Question Mark panel, Shaheen revealed what motivated her to find the courage to talk about it all. The panel discussion was about student mental health and how parents play an important role in this issue. Sharing her Personal Story, Shaheen said: “I never intended to talk about my mental health issues but on this fine day, I was lying in bed trying to find a picture. photos to post on social networks. I realized that I was only looking for happy photos, the complete opposite of what I really felt to share with the world, which made me understand that I wanted to talk about how I really felt. The reason I feel this way is because no one chooses to talk about it and your reflex to ask ‘How do you feel?’ It’s always ‘Oh, I’m fine.’ We constantly wear this mask and pretend to be someone else.”
Mental pressure as a child
“As a child, I felt the only way to prove myself was to be smart and hardworking. Every time I felt down, I felt so bad, so horrible,” she said about her childhood.However, having supportive parents helped. She added: “I feel really lucky because I have supportive parents, they always tell me to just do my best and whatever outcome happens is fine with them, not only that, they never even pressured me to be first.” – student rankings.”
Fights panic attacks
In 2022, on mental health platform ‘Here Comes The Sun’, the writer discussed her panic attack episodes in a conversation with singer-songwriter Ananya Birla.
“I had my first panic attack in seven years, just a month and a half ago. And I had completely forgotten how to deal with them, because I hadn’t seen them in so long,” she said, adding, “The problem with panic attacks is, you feel like you’re going to die… you don’t realize that it’s just panic, or this is just [the] The nervous system goes into overdrive, that’s true.”
Talking about mental health and creating a dialogue is important to ending the taboo and embracing help and healing. Consult your doctor if you experience any persistent signs or symptoms of mental health problems.
