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Comedian Tanmay Bhat, who rose to fame with comedy collective AIB, says he has been suffering with clinical depression.
He was suspended last October following complaints of not acting against sexual harassment allegations made regarding his colleague Utsav Chakraborty.
Bhat on Sunday took to Instagram and uploaded a series of videos, sharing how the subsequent events after his suspension have created a toll on his mental health.
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He said: “After everything that happened in October, I’m mentally checked out. I feel almost paralysed and unable to participate socially, online or even offline. I think a big part of my self worth growing up as someone who looked like me became my work. For most of my adult life I worked at a company that I was trying to build.
“And having to watch the letting the office go, all the people who worked with us, having to say good bye to that took a toll on me mentally and physically which finally came to a headway around the end of the last year and doctors told me that I am suffering from clinical depression and told me to consider doing something about it.”
Last month, AIB issued a statement and announced that Bhat would no longer be their CEO.
Sharing what’s he up to now, Bhat said: “A lot of you have been asking fair questions – why don’t you move on, why don’t you rebuild, all fair advice but for some reason, I have just watched something that I have worked for last part of my adult life come crashing down. I have just been staring at the rubble going ‘what now?’
“I don’t think I’ve been strong enough to be able to pick myself. It’s been a few months since the doctor told me to start medication. I honestly sometimes get super worried that this state of paralysis is permanent. I sometimes feel I might never get back to being who I was or operating to my potential.”