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Navya Naveli Nanda opens up about her experience with anxiety and therapy: “I feel like I hit rock bottom multiple times”
In a recent interview, the 23-year-old touched upon the topic of mental health, revealing that she has also been going for therapy
As the conversation about mental health and therapy only gets more pervasive, Navya Naveli Nanda, daughter of Shweta Bachchan Nanda and granddaughter of Jaya and Amitabh Bachchan, opened up recently about her experience with battling anxiety too. “I feel like I hit rock bottom multiple times and I just couldn't figure out why. I was like ‘Okay, obviously something has to change, I need to talk about it,’” she shared in a video posted on the official Instagram page of Aara Health, healthcare startup that Nanda has recently co-founded.
During the conversation, Nanda explained her need to start going to therapy once a week after she “hit rock bottom”. Experts say that talk therapy can help provide a fresh perspective on an issue and give people a better understanding of their own emotions. "Now once a week, I am in that routine and I don't think I am even close to hitting rock bottom because I have everything in control, I am talking to someone. Now I can identify what are the things that even get me to hit rock bottom. People realise too late sometimes that they need to get help."
Nanda shared that anxiety was the reason she needed to reach out. “I go for like severe anxiety. I get really bad anxiety sometimes and I just don't know why—there's no one reason. I could be outside and it just kicks in. You don't have control of it,” she shared. “A lot of times I felt that I was getting anxious… like I was getting this anxiety because of outside factors. But after doing therapy, it was like 80 per cent was in my head. I didn't even need a trigger on the outside to set it off,” she confirmed.
Going to therapy, Navya Naveli Nanda says, also helped her “learn self-awareness”, which has allowed her to now talk about her emotions more easily. "I just needed to be more self-aware about my own emotions and my body—what I like and what I don't like. It has nothing to do with the outside once you figure out what's really wrong. And I think that really helped." Here's why this is so important: dealing with constant stress can get in the way of effectively managing your emotions, which can lead to poor decision making in the long term.
Apart from therapy, Nanda says that being around positive people has helped her reach a better mental place too. “There have been times in my life when I haven't been surrounded by positive people and I have seen how negatively it has impacted the way that I think. Not just about myself, but about the world. I have learnt from then on that I am only going to surround myself with people who make me feel good and happy,” she confirmed.
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