While focusing on your physical health is as important as taking care of your mental health, the fact remains that many of us tend to ignore the latter and do not want to talk about, mainly because the stigmas attached to mental illnesses. Talking about your mental health issues may not be easy, but suffering in silence can lead to serious consequences.
Quite recently model-turned actor Saheefa Jabbar Khattak, took to social media and talked about her anxiety issue in response to the beautiful women who text her and share their suicidal thoughts.
“I want to confess this for the first time publically that I have a very serious anxiety disease, I feel suicidal, likewise many times I want to die too,” the model-actor wrote on her official Instagram handle. “I am blessed with the best parents, husband, in-laws and I’m doing great in my professional and personal life, but still there is one side of me which feels incomplete. I just want to tell out to all those beautiful people who feel the same that it’s okay! One fine day everything will be fine. We’ll do great in our lives and there won’t be any sleepless night and we wouldn’t want to have an intentional accident while driving. So everyone just chill, be patient, pray, be happy and repeat! And I believe it’s high time we accept that depression, anxiety exists in our society and we should discuss and talk about it.”
Earlier, other celebrities like Momina Mustehsan also came out in the open to talk about her panic attacks and anxiety issue while more recently, actor and activist Alyssa Milano spoke about living with anxiety on ABC’s TV show The View.
“I have a mental illness,” she confessed. “I’m going to say it just like that, because I feel like there is such a stigma around mental illness. I want people to know that if you have anxiety, depression, whatever your mental illness may be, you are not alone.”
