Meet These Famous People Who Overcame Depression

By siliconindia | Monday, 20 January 2014, 14:00 Hrs

Parveen Babi-

She was the changing factor for the look of the Bollywood heroine. She was gorgeous, bold, beautiful, and a successful superstar. While her career was on its peak, she left it for spiritual peace. On April 7^th 1984, she was suspected at John F Kennedy Airport, New York, as she refused to undergo routineairport checks, and acted weird. She was handcuffed with other mentally disturbed patients. She suffered from Paranoid Schizophrenia, which triggered a systematic disintegration of her personality and life. People referred this bad, sad traumatic phase of her life , as the result of alcoholism, failed relationship, especially with Mahesh Bhatt. Some also referred her behavioras genetic, as a result of adolescent trauma, during the Gujarat Riots. The fear of being killed was instilled in her mind so deeply.

Princess Diana-

Amazingly and stunningly beautiful, the royal lady was a tribute to the eyes. Princess of Wales, Diana found herself lucky, when she married Prince Charles. But as there was nothing to share from her life before her marriage, but after it was. She married a man, who loved another woman. Unable to bear this, she developed an eating disorder, known as Bulimia, and while this happened to her, she was referred as mentally unbalanced, in the Royal House. Her failed marriage or say an insensitive husband, made her depressed. She was so hurt; she cut her wrists with razor blade, scratched herself thighs down, and also threw herself down, when she was pregnant. The dark secrets of being royal.