Social media is a territory teeming with landmines of negative opinions and Nimra Khan has experienced that harsh reality. During her appearance on Gup Shab, the actress shared just how detrimental the digital landscape can be to one's mental health.

"Everyone's fighting battles. Would it ease your heart if you opened Instagram at midnight on top of an already traumatic life ... and found others reiterating the same traumatic things?" she posed. According to the Banno star, acceptance is hard to find on social media, especially when one posts something out of anguish. "What I've learnt in due time is that their perspective is not my reality. So I don't even check my comments on Instagram," she said.

"[The onlooker] will take a second to write down their two cents, and you might think this stuff doesn't affect us but it affects us deeply. Sometimes, I can't sleep all night long," Nimra confessed. The actress feels that it is beneficial to hold up a pretence of happiness online. "It's a positive distraction," she said, adding that one may be in denial for sometime, but somewhere along the way, one finds the capacity to heal and move on. Nimra also advised, "Social media has gained the liberty to say anything. So my advice is, don't look for sympathy. You will always find your grief to be bigger than anyone else's perception of it."