INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
New Delhi: Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, who was recently interacting with media at an event, talked about his daughter Shaheen's battle with
The 69-year-old filmmaker told news agency PTI that his daughter Shaheen 'came to a point of considering suicide at the age of 12-13'
"My daughter Shaheen discovered she's suffering from clinical depression at 16
She also came to a point of considering suicide at the age of 12-13
This happened at home," PTI quoted Mahesh Bhatt as saying
Shaheen revealed about her battle with depression earlier this year
Alia Bhatt's elder sister shared how she has "lived with depression" since she was 13."I've lived with depression on and off since I was
This is not a revelation or a confession
Those who know me know this about me
It's not something I take any pains to hide, I'm not ashamed of it or particularly troubled by it
It's just a part of who I am
I have days where I feel good and then I have days where I don't
One minute everything's fine and the next it's like someone turned the light off inside my head
I go quiet and it's difficult to get out of bed
Like it always does the world around me loses focus and I struggle to make sense of it
Sometimes these bouts last an hour - sometimes they last days," read an excerpt from Alia Bhatt's sister Shaheen's article for Vogue
magazine. I've lived with depression on and off since I was about 13 years old
This is not a revelation or a confession
Those who know me know this about me
It's not something I take any pains to hide, I'm not ashamed of it or particularly troubled by it
It's just a part of who I am
I have days where I feel good and then I have days where I don't
One minute everything's fine and the next it's like someone turned the light off inside my head
I go quiet and it's difficult to get out of bed
Like it always does the world around me loses focus and I struggle to make sense of it
Sometimes these bouts last an hour - sometimes they last days
I say I live with depression rather than I struggle with it because for me (and I speak only for myself here) I don't see why it has to be a
I once read an idea by an American essayist called Richard Mitchell which stayed with me; it's now become how I try to approach the dips in
The idea is this: To be sick, or to suffer, is inevitable
But to become bitter and vindictive in sickness and suffering and to surrender to irrationality, supposing yourself the innocent and
virtuous victim of the evils intentions of the world, is not inevitable
The appropriate answer to the question - Why me is the other question - Why not me *** Why am I writing about this Well, I spend a fair
amount of time on social media during the course of my day and today I found myself looking for something to post because it's been a few
days since I've posted anything
I couldn't find anything so I figured I'd just talk about this - how I'm doing, instead of what I'm doing
It's as simple as that, and we could all stand to do a little more of it
That picture just seemed to work in this context.A post shared by Shaheen Bhatt (@shaheenb) on Nov 23, 2016 at 12:18am PST Elder daughter
of Mahesh Bhatt and Soni Razdan, Shaheen is also writing a book describing her battle with depression."Even in our industry, a girl gave
She came to us for work once but we couldn't work together
I still remember seeing her body, the one who came here to work
I've seen this side of the city too," the filmmaker added.Several Bollywood celebrities such as Deepika Padukone and Karan Johar have talked
about their struggle with depression and mental illnesses
Deepika even founded Live Love Laugh, an organisation which aims to help people who need assistance to overcome mental illness.(With PTI
