The shadows haunted and darkened his present life. Adnan Malik went off balance, the actor lost weight and had sleepless nights.
“ Worried about my performance, I would sometimes cry without knowing why. I began to resent my parents, disconnected myself to all my friends and relationships”
The young star confessed how his inner child surfaced and brought him to shame.
“ I needed help”
Splashed across our television screens and on the pages of magazines, actors are our Gods.
THEY make it look so glamorous.
Today Adnan Malik is a household name in Pakistan and a famous actor. He starred in Cake which was named Pakistan’s contender for the Oscars foreign-language category. Bullied as Don’t-kill-the-ants boy now uses his celebrity profile to talk about something close to his heart: mental health.
Adnan Malik knew he needed help, he took the advice to consider therapy that got him to start working on his well-being. He now speaks of how he is not a trained actor and when he did a particular character in Sadqay Tumhare, he had to draw on his life experiences to inform his method. That opened up some challenges for him.
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“The act of performance brings with it its own anxieties,” he says. Acting also has a grueling schedule, so you aren’t always eating properly, or sleeping on time, you aren’t at home and you are constantly shooting. “In our society, we are supposed to be mentally strong. There are a lot of men who do not talk about their feelings.”
He has now become a public figure to talk about mental health as men can struggle with it.
It is when stars like Adnan talk about their own struggles that young people will hopefully be able to pick up the thread. As a celebrity, he is well-placed to talk about the pressures of success in the glittery world.
True actors have the potential power to detach from reality and have infinite ways to dissect the world around them until they are left with nothing.
An actor spends his entire life living in another’s identity to slowly lose his own. Adnan Malik has bravely revealed his darkest secrets to not just save himself but also many others who fear to come forward.
