Celebrity psychiatrist Dr Tanveer Ahmed talks about chasing fame and its bad effects on mental health!
- Fame and chasing it can lead to a detrimental effect on mental health.
- Celebrity psychiatrist Dr. Tanveer Ahmed highlighted this very negative aspect of fame, especially on reality TV shows.
- He has compared it to forbidden drugs and feels that fame resembles and damages as much as substance abuse.
Fame and its ill – effects
Dr. Tanveer Ahmed is a celebrity psychiatrist and his clientele includes several famous names in Hollywood. He was talking to 9Honey and stressed that Fame itself could act as a drug and damage the mental well-being of an individual. Fame can leave severe psychological consequences on the person who chases it and struggles to cling to it.
Tanveer stated that many young people apply to reality TV shows and appear in them to achieve fast-track fame. But when things do not work out or go as planned, they begin doing things to get fame at any cost. They chase it and this causes mental disturbances.
‘Even those with potential talents elsewhere aim to be famous above worthwhile professional careers,’
Tanveer talks about the reality TV shows
Tanveer revealed that the overnight fame that an individual gets on reality TV shows can make them crazy. It can have devastating effects on them.
Hence the shows such as Married At First Sight, The Bachelor, and The Bachelorette have psychologists on the set to take care of the participants and winners of the show.
Examples of the bad effects of Fame
Last year, Love Island star Mike Thalassitis committed suicide after he appeared on the show. He was just 26 when he died. Before this, in the previous season of the same show, Sophie Gradon had appeared and she too had taken her own life. Her age was 32.
Tanveer said:
‘While I did not know them personally, it’s difficult not to think their psychological decline occurred at a time when their fame and beauty were perhaps of lesser value,’
‘The lust for fame is a substitute for love and affection. We live at a time when [fame] appears within grasp for all of us via social media or reality TV, albeit fleetingly.’
Former Bachelor star Tiffany Scanlon had opened up about her mental health issues, after the show in 2016. She said:
‘At the end of 2018, I was broke, lonely, had no direction, a string of failed short romances, was anxious, angry and cynical, and blamed others,’
‘When you live a lie, live against your values, pretend to be someone you’re not, try to follow others’ footsteps, place your value with someone else… it all ends one way: your own misery.’
‘I’m not someone who has a history of depression, but I started getting help in April [2018] because the psychologist said I might have post-traumatic stress disorder because of everything I’d been through,’
Source: Daily Mail
