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How did Star Kids Generation Z become a mental health icon?


After the death of Sushant Singh Rajput in Bollywood and in our country, along with depression, there is a lot of talk about mental illness like clinical depression and nervous breakdown and people are talking openly and telling people about their illness instead of hiding anything. Thus people have also started discussing this extensively. These are true signs - there is no point in hiding a disease and increasing its prevalence, it is better to show a psychologist, psychologist, neurologist and take the appropriate treatment. For the past few years, Star Kids have been talking on social media about their mental health struggles and trying to understand mental illness. Ira Khan, newcomer Nanda and Shaheen Bhatt have started posting on social media about clinical depression, neverbreak ground etc. By this they try to refresh their inner weakness and push it to the mainstream side. Here is an attempt to create more awareness about how Generation Z icons talk about the mental health around them.

Star Kids Don't Hurt: Toxic Misunderstandings

'Why do I need to be depressed?' This is what Ira Khan, the daughter of Aamir Khan, who has been battling depression for four years, says. And he has put this post on Instagram. From the tone of her voice it seems that she is speaking sarcastically. Dr. Kanika Krishnamurthy (psychologist) who is also a researcher in the field of human brain presents some factors in this regard. Judgment, social media trolls, the glare of the media and constant comparisons with the family despite being good all the time.

However, 'privileged people do not have to deal with mental health issues'. That way they avoid being misled by such exposure. While youngsters are convinced that every Star Kid, including some who have everything, also fights on the issue, it gives them a sense of belonging, 'said Prakriti Podare, MD of the Podar Foundation and a mental health expert.

Binds the youth and their elders honestly

‘Girls are starting to talk about how they spend their lives with mental illness, which they find refreshing. This is the alien concept in our society. All this comes in the place of honesty, which binds the elders who are more concerned about the youth and children, 'said Dr. Krishmamurthy said.

In 2012, Shahin, the eldest daughter of Mahesh Bhatt and Soni Razdan, is said to be the first star-kid to face depression. His mother Soni said, "Recently, Shaheen was invited to tell school children about mental health on a video call. And he and I discussed it when I was growing up and going to school. We did not use words like 'anxiety', 'depression' or 'mental health' in this conversation. This did not mean that no one was suffering. "We have said that there is no awareness about this and this issue was just a matter of discussion," he said. "I told the young kids out loud and I insisted that this should change." When you see that there is more talk about this, you will feel less alone and less 'fake'.

Social Media Safe-Space in Mental Health Conversations

"Most people were asking about how she really felt about Shaheen's post, but no one knew she was depressed," Soni told Rajrada. Therefore, there should be more such discussions on mental health. "Social media provides a safe environment for young people to find a way out of online confusion when a trendsetter starts talking about this issue and so they can connect with each other by sharing what they have in common," said psychotherapist and preventive coach Surabhi Dande. Was.

On October 9, Shah Rukh Khan's daughter Suhana Khan shared a photo and caption of Pedro Almodડોvar's 19th film 'Women on the Verge of Nervous Backdown'. Women have reached the brink of a ‘nervous breakdown’.

‘I feel like I’ve touched rock-bottom many times. And yet I have not been able to come out of it .. Kane .. Apparently, my family knows that my therapy is going on, but I do not think that any of my friends have any knowledge about this. I don't know if I can go to them and talk to them. '

- Navya Naveliinanda

(Shweta Bachchan - Nanda's daughter)

"I have been living in depression since I was 17 years old and I don't even live. There is no pain in this that I have to hide. I don't even have to be ashamed of this. Or even a problem because of this. It's just a part of who I am. '

- Shahin Bhatt

(Daughter of Mahesh Bhatt and Soni Razdan)

'I'm depressed. For more than four years .. I am very good now .. I have decided to take you on my journey. And then see what happens. Hopefully we can understand ourselves better. And we will know better about mental illness. '

- Ira Khan

(Aamir Khan - Rina Dutta's daughter)

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