Tunisha Sharma's Suicide And Our Neglect Of Mental Health
On Christmas eve, news broke that a 20-year-old Tunisha Sharma, with a promising acting career ahead of her allegedly died by suicide on the sets of her show 'Ali Baba: Dastaan-E-Kabul'. She was just 20 and left everyone in shock by taking the drastic step of ending her life.
Hours after her death, her co-star and former boyfriend Sheezan Khan was arrested in an abetment to suicide case and and is being questioned to ascertain exactly what happened on the set of the show. Tunisha was reportedly depressed over the breakup with her boyfriend. The conversation in mainstream media and social media somehow never touched on mental health at all. Why? What are we so afraid of that we, as a society, refuse to take mental health awareness seriously?
Hours after her death, her co-star and former boyfriend Sheezan Khan was arrested in an abetment to suicide case and and is being questioned to ascertain exactly what happened on the set of the show. Tunisha was reportedly depressed over the breakup with her boyfriend. The conversation in mainstream media and social media somehow never touched on mental health at all. Why? What are we so afraid of that we, as a society, refuse to take mental health awareness seriously?
