Depression???
Dr. Asma Ali ( Ecologist)
Just a day before, I was planning to write a blog on depression and this morning when I was thoroughly reading headlines (certainly... headlines) on newspaper I picked up a news where a TV actress Renee Dhyani open up one of the toughest phase of her life that she has been battling depression for almost a year after her heartbreak. Some times common people like us plunge into the fantasy world where we get trap with illusion that celebrities have everything in their life (does everything refers money, fame, lavish lifestyle, fan following, bodyguard) ; then why do celebrities despite having everything get into depression?
The answer had to be a bit long this time and I need just few quality minutes of your life to spark a change on the way you look at life, forever.
If we take a look deep down within ourselves and ask “What is the most desirable thing of our life?”. I am sure answer will not be so different for all of us IT'S HAPPINESS. So close your eyes and think about the happiest moment of your life, most likely some of the memories of your childhood will flash right before you or the days of your college canteen or library and the days when your career was on the peak, the days when you blessed with baby and that would be your HAPPY SLIDE SHOW COLLECTION.
Those days when you cherished feeling the breeze in the warmth of the Sun and there was nothing in life that bothered you ( healthy competition with cronies and not politics for sure) we really wanna go back to those days when we were stupid, less equipped but HAPPY.
Being a center of attraction celebrities don't have freedom to move freely, they use to handle stage and public appearance that leave constant stress and anxiety on them. There is a tough competition in every field but celebrities are living in quite complex niche, they require to give their 100% every time, they have to work hard to keep their feet on industry. Name, fame, Life style ; all these things are not permanent and there is always a fear of losing them (synthetic life is eating up the world). Recently Deepika Padukone also address her depression candidly. Some of the celebrities have spoken about their reason of depression while some have not. Some of the hidden reasons maybe past trauma, drug abuse, anxiety etc.
Here are some examples of celebrities who went under depression like George Michael sheer superstar who wanted to live his life and steer his career his way, lost his lover Anselmo Feleppa back in 95; he grieved for so long and the song JESUS TO A CHILD was the outcome.
Another famous celebrity Oprah Winfrey opened up her suicide thought in an interview. When we talk about Indian stars like Hrithik Roshan who was afflicted to depression after making couple of flop movie; Ileana D'Cruz has been with anxiety, body dysmorphic disorder and depression for almost 15 years and Sanjay Dutt battled with depression when he was Re-imprison in 2013. He was unable to sleep during his jail term.
PERFECTION AND EXPECTATION are found to be adequate tools of depression. When you expect a lot from your surrounding people or the person you are attached most, lead you to shatter your soul into pieces ; where you allow a person to be a driving force of yours smile, your happiness. Let me focus on second point…...PERFECTION; no one in this world is perfect, then how could you expect perfect performance from oneself, or we use to pretend as a perfect in this and that….
Life is a thin thread it takes a second to snap... the CREATURE OF UNIVERSE blessed each and everyone of us with uniqueness….. never give up.
(continue………..)
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