Sanjana Sanghi highlights ‘silent mental health crisis’ during Covid

Mental health, according to Sanjana Sanghi, is one key aspect which needs to be focused on equally in the current times. With anxiety, panic and grief being constant emotions right now, the actor says we are suffering “in so many different ways”.

This has prompted her to start a mental health initiative, one where people can avail free tech and audio sessions with qualified psychologists. The 24-year-old says, “As a community, we have to come together. There is so much effort into raising funds. I felt I would be happy doing that, which I have been, but there are areas which were gaping holes.”

And that was our mental health. “We are going through a silent mental health crisis. We don’t have the bandwidth to address it, we are all experiencing so pain and grief ourselves. Grief is not an emotion you are supposed to experience frequently. It is an emotion you deal with very rarely in your life. I have studied psychology in school, and wanted to do my bit to actually get tangible support from psychologists for people,” says Sanghi who has lost people in her immediate family and family friends in the last week.

The actor has also been looking after her physical health, and gone in for getting vaccinated against Covid as soon as it was made available for ages 18 and above. She says, “I have been a huge supporter of the idea of getting vaccinated. The moment the slots opened up, my brother booked it. It was amazing to see it was well organized, at least in my experience. I hope that’s true all over the country.”