Aamir Khan and Ira Khan. Pic/Instagram
Aamir Khan and his former wife Reena Dutta's daughter Ira Khan is a mental health advocate. Making social media her tool to spread awareness and extend support to people, she has been vocal about dealing with depression. Now, in an interview with ETimes, the aspiring filmmaker revealed her depression is partly genetic. She shared there's a history of mental health issues in her maternal and paternal families.
Talking to ETimes, Ira shared, "Depression is a little complicated. It is partly genetic, partly psychological, and social. In my case, it is partly genetic. There is a history of mental health issues in my family on my mom and dad's side. My therapist said that one of the trigger points was my parents, who handled their divorce as well as they could at that point."
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She further spoke about how she decided to be 'a slightly broken person' to be loved. "I made this perception by watching a lot of movies. I remember being as young as 8 or 10 years old and telling myself to fake a smile, to repress my feelings⦠So that I grew up being slightly broken because I believed that only then people will love me. So, I systematically made sure that I turned out to be a depressed person," Ira said.
In the same interview, Ira revealed her therapist told her that her parents' separation was "one of the trigger points" for her depression. She added, "My therapist said that one of the trigger points was my parents, who handled their divorce as well as they could at that point. It was amicable. I am not blaming them but what they didn't realise is that because they made it seem like divorce was not a big deal, there was a perception my mind created of the situation. We create perceptions and we don't necessarily communicate to people about those."
Ira got engaged to fitness coach Nupur Shikhare in November last year at a grand ceremony in the presence of family members and close friends. They were in a relationship for quite some time. Ira and Nupur are yet to announce their wedding date.
