IBINUNYAG ni Lady Gaga na nakaranas siya ng Post-traumatic stress disorder o PTSD.
Ibinahagi ito ng philanthropic singer sa segment ng Today na napanood nitong Lunes. Sinorpresa ni Lady Gaga, 30-anyos, ang kabataan sa Ali Forney Center, tahanan ng mga LGBT homeless youth sa New York City.
“I told the kids today, ‘I suffer from PTSD.’ I’ve never told anyone that before,” aniya. “So here we are. But the kindness that’s shown to me by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.”
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Inihayag ni Lady Gaga noong Disyembre 2014 sa interview kay Howard Stern na ginahasa siya noong unang bahagi ng kanyang career.
“You know, I went through some horrific things,” paglalahad niya kay Stern. “I’m able to laugh now because I’ve gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy and emotional therapy to heal over the years. My music’s been wonderful for me. But, you know, I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19 … I went to Catholic school, and then all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, ‘Oh, is this just the way adults are?’”
“It happens every day, and it’s really scary and it’s sad,” dagdag niya. “And you know, it didn’t affect me as much right after as it did about four or five years later. It hit me so hard. I was so traumatized by it that I was like, just keep going. I just had to get out of there.”
Noong nakaraang taon, naging nominado si Lady Gaga sa Oscar para sa Best Original Song sa kanyang kanta na Til It Happens to You, na isinulat niya kasama si Diane Warren para sa The Hunting Ground, dokumentaryo tungkol sa sexual assault sa mga college campus.
Ang kanyang paglabas sa Today ay para sa pagtatatag ng Born This Way Foundation kasama ang kanyang inang si Cynthia Germanotta, na tutulong sa kabataan para bumuo ng mas maganda at mas matapang na mundo. Nagbigay siya ng mga regalo, niyakap at pinangunahan ang mga bata sa meditation bilang bahagi ng Today at #ShakeKindness campaign ng NBC Universal para ipagdiwang ang mga mabuting gawain.
“Meditation helps me to calm down,” sabi ni Lady Gaga sa mga kabataan. “I don’t have the same kind of issues that you have, but I have a mental illness, and I struggle with that every day so I need my mantra to help keep me relaxed.”
