Mental health is so essential in both our physical and general welfare, but it remains a taboo subject in most cultures including ours. It includes our emotional, psychological and social well-being which influences how we think, feel and act. Moreover, mental health also affects how people handle stress, relate to others and make decisions that they come across in their day-to-day activities.
Despite its significance though, mental health has been highly stigmatized hence making it hard for one to disclose about his or her personal predicaments. However, in recent times some personalities from Bollywood have begun to speak out against the silence around mental health. Through sharing their own struggles with anxiety, depression among other challenges related to psychological condition; these luminaries inspire others to seek treatment thus reducing the stigma associated with the issue of mental disturbance.
Here are some Bollywood celebrities who bravely share about their journey through mental illness. 1. Shraddha Kapoor Shraddha Kapoor, in a discussion of her movie Stree’s success in 2018, opened up about her fight with anxiety.
Three to four years before she had admitted struggling with unexplained physical discomfort since the release of Aashiqui 2 around 2013, Shraddha Kapoor disclosed that she had been living with anxiety for four years. Shraddha explains that anxiety is something not to be fought against but rather embraced as oneself. Her journey from confusion to .