We did not have any help from anybody in dealing with anxiety: Archana

We need to be cautious while dealing with the word: Archana

I have a cousin and he suffers from such crippling anxiety: Archana

Indian actress and TV personality Archana Puran Singh is remembered for being a guest on The Great Indian Kapil Show. She has now thrown light on how Indian society does not address the issue of anxiety. “We all have gone through that feeling while growing up, be it before an exam, getting scolded by parents or anticipating a scolding. Nobody informed us that it is called anxiety. It was self realisation that what I have experienced has also been anxiety, even though it was at a very mild level and there are people who are suffering from extreme anxiety. I have experienced it during my childhood, during my teenage years, during my college days, when my career was starting off, then when some project didn’t take off. We suffered silently for so many years. We did not have any help from anybody in dealing with anxiety, maximum our mother would come and hug us,” she stated in a post on Instagram. 

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Archana however differentiated between different levels of anxiety in her post. “What I call anxiety, maybe is nothing compared to the person who’s suffering from crippling anxiety. I have a cousin and he suffers from such crippling anxiety that he only then stays in his room. When I talk to him, he tells me that his good days means he can come out of my room. Now, that is a level of anxiety that I have never experienced. I have no knowledge about. I am not making light of the people who are dealing with extreme levels of anxiety. But we need to be cautious while dealing with the word,” Archana added.