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Actress Rhea Chakraborty recently received major relief from the Bombay High Court after it directed the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) to return her passport, which was earlier seized in connection with the 2020 drugs case linked to Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. Now, Rhea, who is rebuilding her life, opened up about the trauma that she had to endure and how PTSD had a huge impact on her health and her life.
Rhea Chakraborty said, as quoted by the Hindustan Times, “The level of trauma that I have seen, whatever happens relative to that, it feels small. I feel this is a gift that every person who goes through trauma receives. It makes you better equipped to deal with any kind of trauma that comes next, and you do value the small things. The most prestigious thing for me in my life today is normalcy.”
The actress mentioned, “Just to have my passport back, whether I take the trip or not, but just to be able to feel free in my head that if some work comes tomorrow that needs me to travel urgently, I can. That feeling of freedom makes me feel like I have got a gift from God. These small things become the big things, and when they do, everything else feels achievable.”
Recalling her mental health battle, Rhea said, “I suffered from PTSD, and at the slightest things, like if a person even ran towards me to open a door, I used to feel so panicky. I used to get lactic acid buildup in my calves because PTSD activates your fight or flight response; you are constantly in that survival mode. Over a period of time, my gut got affected, because the gut is your second brain. I changed my lifestyle completely for two years. I turned vegetarian, and I used to only eat khichdi.”
Rhea added, “I feel that the mental health crisis is a pandemic, and everyone is going through it. I can tell you someone as young as 15-16 today will be like, ‘I have anxiety’ because of the hustle culture. There is a pressure to do so much all the time.”
“There’s still a stigma around mental health. Talking about one’s experiences, whether it’s anxiety, depression, PTSD, or any trauma, it’s still frowned upon. While there is a section of society that has understood that mental health problems are real, the biggest problem that we, as a society, face is judgment,” the actress mentioned.
Rhea also advocated for therapy and said, “I have done therapy for three-and-a-half years, and there was a time when I did therapy every week. Every Wednesday at 4 pm for two years and four months non-stop, I did not miss a single session. Therapy really saved me, so people who say that therapy is nonsense, I don’t believe that.”
On September 30, the Bombay High Court directed the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) to return the actress’s passport, permanently relaxing her bail conditions imposed during the Sushant Singh Rajput death case. Earlier, after the death of the late actor, Rhea was arrested and granted bail the following month, with the condition to deposit her passport with the NCB.
