Mahesh Bhatt wants daughter Shaheen to sue him

Alia Bhatt's sister opened up about experiencing depression since the age of 13.

Mumbai - 25 Nov 2016 16:29 IST
Updated : 16:38 IST

Alia Bhatt's sister Shaheen admitted in an Instagram post that she has been suffering from depression since the age of 13. In the recent years, many celebrities, including Deepika Padukone, Honey Singh, have confessed to having battled 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.

A photo posted by Shaheen Bhatt (@shaheenb) on Nov 23, 2016 at 12:18am PST

In the above post, Shaheen stated she has learnt to live with depression and is unashamed to talk about it. She didn't call it a concession or a revelation but has merely accepted it as part of her life.

“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,” Shaheen wrote.

This open disclosure by Shaheen has won her admirers. It didn’t take long for her father Mahesh Bhatt to blame himself for this daughter’s depression.

The filmmaker posted this intriguing tweet.

One can’t say whether this was unintentional sarcasm. However, it is amusing that Bhatt is asking his daughter to sue him for passing on a particular gene.