'I wrote a play about my mental health struggles'

Speaking astir your intelligence wellness struggles, peculiarly successful the South Asian assemblage tin beryllium tough, fto unsocial trying to constitute a play astir it.

But that's what 17-year-old Siyani Sheth has done.

"It was strange, particularly keeping successful caput that truthful galore radical are going to spot it and perceive it," she tells BBC Asian Network.

"My full beingness is conscionable going to beryllium exposed similar that.

"It's scary but truly bully to constitute it each down and beryllium similar 'I've been done truthful overmuch and travel retired the different side'."

In the South Asian community, intelligence wellness is often considered a taboo issue.

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Siyani's play is based connected her ain intelligence wellness issues - and explores things similar depression, anxiousness and self-harm.

She says her issues started astir the property of 14 erstwhile she struggled with eating and fainted connected a schoolhouse trip.

But Siyani was reluctant to archer anyone what was happening.

"It's precise overmuch having a stiff precocious lip," she says.

"And I deliberation thing other astir the South Asian assemblage is pressure, due to the fact that determination is truthful overmuch [of it] to beryllium truly cleanable and excel.

"It's truly hard to sometimes unrecorded up to that."

Siyani was diagnosed with anxiety, slump and an eating upset erstwhile she was 15.

She says she had trips to A&E and past to a session successful the Netherlands for therapy.

"It was truly hard to travel to presumption with that, I recovered myself successful a truly acheronian place.

"It was truly aggravated and confronting. But I besides recovered radical that were feeling the aforesaid things."

Siyani she says she's present doing overmuch amended and putting her efforts into raising consciousness astir intelligence wellness - done things similar this play.

And she's not shying distant from telling her story.

"It's precise raw. I've tried to support it precise existent and amusement the gritty broadside of intelligence unwellness that radical don't truly see," she says.

And she isn't excessively disquieted astir radical who aren't supportive, peculiarly those wrong her ain community.

"It's much astir telling that story.

"And if it reaches 1 idiosyncratic who's feeling truly unsocial and feels a small spot little unsocial aft it, that's what I want."

Siyani's play The Expulsion of Exulansis tin beryllium seen successful London from 29-31 August.

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