“Head Stuck in a Cycle I Look Off and I Stare” A personal letter from Gaga (on living with PTSD) (www.bornthisway.foundation.com
Last week, Lady Gaga disclosed she has been living with PTSD for years. The trauma that caused it is rape. She wrote about the diagnosis, how it impacts her and why she has disclosed now. It's not easy to own this diagnosis or the symptoms that come along with it for a lot of reasons. There's still a lot of shame, stigma and confusion about struggling with pain, especially emotional or physiological pain, and a lot of denial about the causes of traumatic stress. In adults as well as in...