Karan Johar discusses his battle with mental and being on medication: There was an anxiety issue that I combated five years ago

In the Koffee With Karan season 7 finale, Karan Johar talked openly about his battle with anxiety about five years ago. Alongside social media personalities and comedians Tanmay Bhatt, Kusha Kapila, Danish Sait, and Niharika NM, who were among the special guests of the concluding episode of Koffee with Karan Season 7, the director discussed his battles with anxiety.

In the episode, Karan was questioned about how he responds to scathing remarks and internet criticism. The director admitted that he underwent therapy before confessing, “I built some kind of thick skin over the years. Honestly, it doesn't bother me the way people think it should bother me when I read stuff that is completely putrid, awful. They come down to even abusing my kids. Those are times when I feel like f***, just leave them out of it. I'm like, you can say whatever you want about me, my sexuality or about all the conspiracy theories they have that are really down and dirty. It really doesn't bother me and it's not like I have not been in therapy and I haven't had issues in the past.”

Additionally, Karan discussed how overcoming anxiety helped him grow, explaining: “there was an anxiety issue that I combatted 5 years ago and that was when I really opened up. You know, when I spoke to my doctor and she was a psychologist and she said that you are actually brushing everything so deep within that you actually think that you are dealing with it and that you have thick skin but actually you are shoving it into a dark, deep area and that's all going to pop up at some time. So, she said you shouldn't. So, at least I started talking about this fact to people because I was not even telling people that I was in therapy and that I was going through an issue of anxiety for 3 or 4 years.”

He also mentioned that he feels better today when talking about mending and overcoming his problems. After that time, he said, whenever he pulled himself off of the medicine, that 's how he understood he was feeling significantly better now since he was expressing people close to him that the medication had somehow affected him since, in his opinion, " whether it is anxiety or depression, it's spiralling from somewhere, right? Like maybe, I am thinking it's because of a broken heart but it is also because of ABC reason. So now I just talk about it much more and it sucks at times. '

On the work front, Karan is all ready to make his directorial comeback with Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani. Alia Bhatt and Ranveer Singh are the stars and the movie, which will be released next year, also features veteran actors Jaya Bachchan, Dharmendra, and Shaban Azmi.