Zaira Wasim Opens Up About Her Battle With Depression and Anxiety

“Depression and anxiety is not a feeling. It’s an illness. It’s not somebody’s choice or fault.”

Zaira Wasim, who shot to fame after the movie Dangal, revealed that she was suffering from ‘severe anxiety and depression’ in a note shared on all her social media pages on 11 May.

The National Award winning actress, who was last seen in Secret Superstar, writes that she had always been ‘scared and embarrassed’ to accept her condition because of the ‘stigma attached to the word depression’ and she was always told that she was ‘too young’ to be depressed’ or that it was ‘just a phase’.