aamir khans daughter ira had little to do with mental health well being until depression struck her from phases of crying for hours to not eating at a stretch of four days ira has been through deep dips and battled it all to drive her sanity in the right direction in her journey of healing ira has encountered several demons and is now extending support to others who are journeying the same boatin this weeks big interview ira bares her heart about dealing with clinical depression her bouts of low phases and father aamir khans support in this initiative to spread a word about sound mental healthread alsoshekhar kapur had aamir khan been my assistant he would not have made such wonderful films and been a big star biginterviewshekhar kapur recalls memories of working with satish kaushik he talks about aamir khan wanting to be his assistant but getting rejected by kaushik after he showed up in a car wearing shorts kapur also recalls the passion behind making paani with sushant singh rajput and his indelible associationabhishek bachchan talks about 23 years of refugee comparisons with amitabh bachchan nepotism aaradhya bachchan and more biginterviewabhishek bachchans debut film refugee is set to celebrate its 23rd anniversary the actor who has evolved over the years and mastered the nittygritties of his craft discusses his journey highs and lows amidst much more in this weeks big interview read onthere are several myths and misconceptions about depression in india how did your diagnosis come abouti was diagnosed with clinical depression in 2018 i was working on my play and someone told me about how ar rahman had talked about his anxiety and how it helped a lot of people so i thought i could do that too i had the words to articulate what i was going through which i realized not a lot of people have i have learned a little bit of psychology and my aunt is a therapist i was diagnosed in 2018 but i was trying to figure this out many years before that i realized that this was something that i could do then i spent the next three years talking to people reading stuff and trying to figure out whether i actually wanted to do this because its a big responsibility to get involved in someones mental healthshed some light on your initiatives for mental healthi founded a company in 2021 but we didnt do anything for one and a half years because i was so confused every time i tried to do research i found gaps i thought all therapists were great but every time i met someone they told me horrifying experiences they had with their therapist where they broke their confidentiality or made them worse i wondered how these people ended up with therapists who were not even helping them when i started looking into it i found that theres no licensing of therapists in india there is only a license for clinical psychologists