{"id":424633,"date":"2023-08-29T23:43:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=424633"},"modified":"2023-08-30T00:29:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T19:29:37","slug":"mahira-khan-opens-up-about-her-battle-with-manic-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/mahira-khan-opens-up-about-her-battle-with-manic-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahira Khan Opens Up About Her Battle With Manic Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mahira Khan has opened up about her mental health struggle and being diagnosed with manic depression by a psychiatrist. The Pakistani actor said in a recent interview with FWhy Podcast that she learned to face her mental health struggles, especially after stepping into Bollywood with the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Raees<\/em>, and the 2017 incident, where\u00a0pictures\u00a0of her smoking with actor Ranbir Kapoor emerged online.<\/p>\n

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Raees<\/em> was released in 2017, the same year the smoking pictures scandal with\u00a0Ranbir Kapoor\u00a0happened. Reflecting on that time, the actor revealed she dealt with immense backlash, calling it ‘unexpected’.<\/p>\n

Mahira said,<\/p>\n

That (backlash) brought out the anxiety and depression hidden inside me. That was a hard time for me. I felt attacked. The constant backlash\u2026 You are getting mean tweets, and comments on their channels (Indian channels). That was a time my faith broke and I developed severe anxiety to the point that one day I had a panic attack and fainted. That was the first time I went to therapy. But that didn\u2019t work out, as I went to several therapists… that year was rough… I couldn\u2019t sleep, my hands used to shake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cAny little thing triggered my anxiety, eventually I ended up in a psychiatrist\u2019s office,” and said, “We\u2019ll talk about everything later, but I need you to know that you have manic depression”.<\/p>\n

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Mahira added she has been on antidepressants for the past 6-7 years. She said she tried leaving them in the middle but ‘went into a very, very dark space and a dark whole’. Mahira also said that this is the first time she is opening up about the fact that she has been taking medication for so many years.<\/p>\n

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Mahira also said that everybody has ups and downs, ‘bad times and happy times, but clinical depression is like any other mental illness or physical illness’.<\/p>\n\n

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Mahira Khan has opened up about her mental health struggle and being diagnosed with manic depression by a psychiatrist. The Pakistani actor said in a recent interview with FWhy Podcast that she learned to face her mental health struggles, especially after stepping into Bollywood with the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Raees, and the 2017 incident, where\u00a0pictures\u00a0of her smoking with actor Ranbir […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":424637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2506,2576,2532,2540,2538,2530,1291,1295,1297],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-424633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-actors","8":"category-celebrity-news","9":"category-health-and-wellness","10":"category-international","11":"category-mental-health","12":"category-social-issue-cause","13":"category-social-media","14":"category-travel","15":"category-tv-movies-music"},"wps_subtitle":"The problem started after pictures with Ranbir went viral.","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/mahira-1-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/mahira-1.jpg",1000,560,false],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/mahira-1.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Rija Sohaib","categories_name":["Actors","Celebrity News","Health and Wellness","International","Mental health","Social Issue\/Cause","Social Media","Travel","TV & Film"],"title_text":"Mahira Khan Opens Up About Her Battle With Manic Depression","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=2506,2576,2532,2540,2538,2530,1291,1295,1297&exclude=424633","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424633"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=424633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}