Alia Bhatt’s sister Shaheen Bhatt opened up about her fight with melancholy and sleep deprivation two years in a long Instagram post. Presently, with the news about superstar gourmet specialist Anthony Bourdain and form creator Kate Spade’s suicide, she has by and by penned down how she defeated her self-destructive musings and battled the murkiness inside her. The article has been shared by Alia via web-based networking media with the inscription, “Shaheen you are brilliant! My sister has battled and lived with depression since she was 12. She speaks her heart out and without any hesitation addresses the giant elephant in the room – Mental health and the LACK of our understanding & acceptance!”
In a blog, Shaheen has written for Vogue, she mentioned, “I’ve lived with depression since I was 12 years old and since then I’ve been suicidal on more than one occasion. I’ve experienced the sheer terror of contemplating a life filled with unrelenting anguish, and I’ve been consumed by the terrifying thought of having but a single means of escape from a bleak, unbearable future.”
Shaheen you are brilliant! My sister has battled and lived with depression since she was 12. She speaks her heart out and without any hesitation addresses the giant elephant in the room – Mental health and the LACK of our understanding & acceptance! https://t.co/ih0PmzujYl
— Alia Bhatt (@aliaa08) 14 June 2018
Daughter of Mahesh Bhatt and Soni Razdan, Shaheen also talked about the impact of social media on young lives and how it “has given rise to a dangerous tendency to airbrush and filter our personal lives.” She wrote, “A year and a half ago I chose to talk about my own experiences with depression on social media and even though I had never hidden that facet of my life, I was concerned about the judgement I would receive. Social media has given rise to a dangerous tendency to airbrush and filter our personal lives. There is so much value placed on false ideas of positivity and emotional prosperity that we present our lives as immaculate highlight reels entirely devoid of substance, and altogether devoid of the aches and pains of what it means to be human.”