On World Mental Health Day (October 10), Ira Khan, who’s Aamir Khan’s daughter from his former wife Reena Dutta, took to Instagram to share something personal.
In a bid to start a conversation around mental health, Ira shared a video revealing that she had been battling clinical depression for more than four years.
She captioned her post – “A lot has been going on, a lot of people have a lot to say. Things are really confusing and stressful and simple and okay but not okay and… life all together. There’s no way to say it all in one go. But I’d like to think I’ve figured some stuff out, or at least figured out how to make it slightly more understandable. About mental health and mental ill-health. So come with me on this journey… in my awkward, quirky, sometimes-baby-voice-y, as-honest-as-I-can-be… way. Let’s start a conversation. Happy World Mental Health Day. . . . #worldmentalhealthday #mentalhealth #depression #journey #letsstartaconversation”
In the video, Ira can be seen talking about how she wanted to do something for mental health but wasn’t sure how to go about it.
To start a dialogue among her followers about the topic, Ira went on, stating – “Hi, I’m depressed. I have been for more than four years now. I’ve been to a doctor and I’m clinically depressed. I’m doing much better now. For over a year now, I wanted to do something for mental health, but I wasn’t sure what to do.”
“I have decided to take you on a journey – my journey – and see what happens. Hopefully, we’ll get to know ourselves and understand mental illness slightly better. I’ve thought of so many things to say. What should I say? Why am I doing this?”
Ira abruptly signed off the video on a questioning note, “Let’s start from where I started. What do I have to be depressed about? Who am I to be depressed? I have everything, right?”
Ira is the younger of Aamir Khan’s two children with his first wife Reena Dutta. Ira has studied music, while her brother Junaid often assists their father in filmmaking.