Mumbai, Oct 10, 2025

On account of World Mental Health Day on the 10th of October, mental health advocate and entrepreneur Ira Khan, also known for being Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan’s daughter, shared a video talking about the issue. In

her video, Ira was seen elaborating on the topic of mental health and what causes it! “But why? Why do mental illnesses occur? They actually occur for the same reasons that physical illnesses occur in the sense that different illnesses, mental or physical, happen for different reasons.”

She further elaborated, “You don’t usually get a straight simple answer when it comes to mental illnesses because they happen for multiple reasons, many factors coming together and a lot of them are not visible. What this means is that we can’t predict mental illness.”

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