Anurag Kashyap's Daughter Aaliyah On Her Mental Health: "I Was In The Hospital For Severe Panic Attacks, It Felt Like I Was Going To Die"

Anurag Kashyap's daughter Aaliyah Kashyap is a pretty popular YouTuber. The young girl is quite open with her followers on the medium and shared a lot about her life experiences there. In her recent video, she opened up about her mental health. She not just revealed that she has been suffering from anxiety and depression ever since she was a teenager, but also added that it deteriorated after she had tested positive for COVID-19 in November. In fact, she had such a severe panic attack that she felt she would die and had to be admitted to a hospital.

In her video, Aaliyah said, “I have always dealt with anxiety and depression since I was a teenager, so maybe since I was 13-14. I have always dealt with it on and off but it has never been bad to the point where I couldn't cope. It has always been easy for me to snap out of it." But, after she had tested positive for Covid, it only deteriorated. She added, “Since then, I just haven’t been able to snap out of it, which is weird for me, because usually, it is so easy for me to just snap out of it. I’ll do a therapy or counselling session and I’ll be fine for months or weeks. But it was really hard for me after November. I was just super low, constantly crying, feeling like there was no purpose to my life, like I didn’t want to exist or do anything. I thought I was a burden on everyone else and all of these negative interrupting thoughts in my head that obviously aren’t true. But that is what it felt like.”

It worsened when she had a panic attack. “ I just completely broke down and I was in the hospital for severe panic attacks... Which is why my parents flew down here because they were worried about me,” she said.

Things looked better for the starlet, but it started going downhill from March again. On April 10th, she had a severe panic attack. “Suddenly, my body became numb, completely numb. My heart started beating really fast. I started sweating. My body started violently trembling. Literally, I was like, ‘I am dying’. It felt like this was it for me and I was going to die. Mind you, I have had panic attacks before but nothing like this, ever. So I didn’t know what I was having was a panic attack and not a heart attack or stroke,” she revealed.

While she can't figure out what triggered it, she shares that she is still in a constant state of anxiety. “After that Sunday night, for the last 10 days, I have felt constant anxiety. Even right now. My heart rate was super high. I couldn’t breathe. My chest was hurting throughout,” she quipped. See the video here:

Aaliyah said that she decided to make a video on this to let everyone, who is in a similar situation, know that they are not alone. She also advised people to seek medical advice and therapy if they felt anything like this!