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Yashma Gill talks about mental health

June 16, 2020 03:13 PM


Rising star Yashma Gill has spoken out about her battle with depression, calling for greater public discussion to help tackle the mental health crisis.

Taking to Instagram, she penned a lengthy note and wrote: “I’ve talked about this before, talking about it again and will keep talking about it till it doesn’t become normal. As someone who has had firsthand experience of depression, panic attacks and anxiety so severe that it sometimes became derealisation. I can’t stress enough at the importance of reaching out and seeking help.”

She continued saying, “Please stop labelling someone’s depression as just a phase or sadness. Sadness and depression are two different emotional states with depression being way more difficult to carry your life with - it’s dark, hollow, emotionally debilitating and can take a toll on your logical thinking leaving you feeling hopeless. The worst for me were the times I felt emotionally in pain, might sound foreign to many who have never experienced mental illness but emotional pains are just like physical pains except that u can’t spot where they are coming from.”

“The pains at times become so severe that you just want to stop feeling and the only way to escape seems to be GIVING UP. But guess what? I kept my belief firm in Allah swt and to a great extent I’m extremely thankful to my religion and the beliefs that come with it regarding Suicide - its haram and u still won’t find the peace that u are looking for. Having that belief I decided not to give up and to reach out,” the actress wrote. 

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She concluded saying: “Despite the fear of being called mentally challenged, a psycho or someone that can just not be labelled normal (which are all such shameful terms to give to anyone suffering from the illness of an organ called brain just like other organs can get infected it can too) I started taking therapy, it did help initially and YES therapy does work but sometimes there’s a massive mal-functioning of neurotransmitters which needs medication to be fixed. (The silver lining to spot is that it can fixed) Likewise, when therapy hit a wall for me I was put on medication and Alhamdulilah mashaaAllah lahulwala quwata illa bila hil aliyul azeem from my own experience I can tell everyone suffering from depression or any kind of mental illness that there is hope.”

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