Shocking! Alia Bhatt’s sister Shaheen Bhatt considered suicide at the age of 12-13

Slowly and steadily, we are opening up to depression and are becoming familiar with the mental health condition. This has helped people battling depression get over their problem and get their lives back on track. But we, as a society, still have a long way to go and need a lot of learning as to how to deal with people who are going through depression.

Among the list of celebrities who have battled depression is Mahesh Bhatt and Soni Razdan’s daughter and Alia Bhatt’s elder sister, Shaheen Bhatt.

Mahesh Bhatt, in an interview with PTI, made a shocking revelation about Shaheen. “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,” he said.

Shaheen had also shared a post on Instagram talking about her depression. “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. Today, I’m on day 4. 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 struggle. 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 my week or month. 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. P.S. That picture just seemed to work in this context.”

Check her post below:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BNJUuG8AXh-/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_loading_state_control

Like the Bhatts have stood rock solid by Shaheen, we hope the people who are suffering from depression have someone to talk to.

Also Read: Shaheen Bhatt to write a book on depression