Actress Smilie Suri, known for her role in the film ‘Kalyug’, has been keeping away from the glamourous world. In an interview with Siddharth Kannan, she revealed that she has been battling depression for a long period.
The actress candidly discussed her experiences with loss and trauma. She shared, “Depression, I feel, builds up over time. Trauma accumulates in our body.After that, my father passed away. Then my grandmother passed away. These losses were very significant to me. And it was just loss, loss, loss. No work. I was like, ‘Come on, Smilie, get up. Get up. Cry one day.’ I don’t think I mourned their losses. I don’t think I had the time to mourn them.”
When asked why she didn’t have time to mourn, she said, “Maybe at that time, I had to keep busy, whether it was with cinema or TV. Or I thought, ‘I have found a partner, so I will get married.’ When everything came crashing down in 2016, when my husband walked out, that’s when I broke down. I had a complete nervous breakdown. It was trauma.”
She further explained, “All of us have trauma within us. Our parents have carried trauma for 50-60 years. I find it very ironic that our elders say, ‘We had confidence. We knew how to live. You are this, you are that.’ Have they ever thought that their arthritis, knee pain, back pain—these are manifestations of trauma? I feel it’s very important for everyone to get therapy. We ignore mental health so much. If you have diabetes, you take medicine. If you have cancer, you undergo chemo. But what about depression and anxiety? Our elders say, ‘We were never depressed.’ You don’t know that you were not depressed. But it’s visible in the body—ulcers, back pain. This is trauma. What are the things that you haven’t healed? Taking medicine is not a bad thing. It regulates our hormones like dopamine, serotonin, and endorphins. Take therapy along with that. Heal yourself.”
The actress candidly discussed her experiences with loss and trauma. She shared, “Depression, I feel, builds up over time. Trauma accumulates in our body.After that, my father passed away. Then my grandmother passed away. These losses were very significant to me. And it was just loss, loss, loss. No work. I was like, ‘Come on, Smilie, get up. Get up. Cry one day.’ I don’t think I mourned their losses. I don’t think I had the time to mourn them.”
When asked why she didn’t have time to mourn, she said, “Maybe at that time, I had to keep busy, whether it was with cinema or TV. Or I thought, ‘I have found a partner, so I will get married.’ When everything came crashing down in 2016, when my husband walked out, that’s when I broke down. I had a complete nervous breakdown. It was trauma.”
She further explained, “All of us have trauma within us. Our parents have carried trauma for 50-60 years. I find it very ironic that our elders say, ‘We had confidence. We knew how to live. You are this, you are that.’ Have they ever thought that their arthritis, knee pain, back pain—these are manifestations of trauma? I feel it’s very important for everyone to get therapy. We ignore mental health so much. If you have diabetes, you take medicine. If you have cancer, you undergo chemo. But what about depression and anxiety? Our elders say, ‘We were never depressed.’ You don’t know that you were not depressed. But it’s visible in the body—ulcers, back pain. This is trauma. What are the things that you haven’t healed? Taking medicine is not a bad thing. It regulates our hormones like dopamine, serotonin, and endorphins. Take therapy along with that. Heal yourself.”
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