Amriit stated that she experienced societal pressure to pursue a career in law after a male mentor insisted that she was unable to do so due to her gender. She said she chose her career for no other reason than to prove a point.
"Because I worked my whole life to get to the top, I didn't realize I could have left. To me, giving up wasn't an option. In my mind, I would've felt like a complete failure if I quit or dropped out. I wanted to be successful and I truly believed there was no other option: I had to be a lawyer," Amriit told the Daily Mail. "I was very conditioned by society about what success looked like and I wanted to prove to my family of medical experts I could do it. I was the first in my family to become a lawyer."
It was instilled in her from the time she climbed the corporate ladder that she was expected to be perfect. This perspective evolved into an obsession, she said.
"As a lawyer, you start to internalize the message of perfection - you start to identify with it and hold yourself to that impossible expectation," she said. "You have to know the law inside out and the advice you give has to always be 100 percent. If you're wrong, there are huge consequences."
Amriit regrets the fact that her unwavering commitment to her career deprived her of the opportunity to become a mother. "Because I put my legal career first," she said, "There was no time for children."
"I always thought, 'Oh, it'll happen at some point. I remember vividly coming up to my forties and I knew time had basically run out," Amriit continued. "I grieved the loss for nearly two years."
Around that time she decided to quit her career and was later diagnosed with PTSD. Amriit is now a TEDx speaker, mentoring others while living a balanced healthy life full of purpose, she said.
