Lady Gaga Pens Open Letter About Her Struggle With PTSD
Posted on Wed Dec 7th, 2016 10:25am PDT By X17 Staff
"Open letters" are the new closed letters!
Lady Gaga got in line with the open letter trend and penned a personal note to her fans about having PTSD and and how it affects her every day.
The 30-year-old posted the letter on her Born This Way Foundation website on Tuesday, and wrote about how she's "wrestled" with her diagnosis.
The Grammy winner wrote, "It is a daily effort for me, even during this album cycle, to regulate my nervous system so that I don’t panic over circumstances that to many would seem like normal life situations. Examples are leaving the house or being touched by strangers who simply want to share their enthusiasm for my music."
The blonde went on, "I also experience something called dissociation, which means that my mind doesn’t want to relive the pain, so I look off and I stare in a glazed-over state ... My body is in one place and my mind in another. It’s like the panic accelerator in my mind gets stuck, and I am paralyzed with fear."
Gaga says she deals with PTSD by going to psychotherapy and takes medication prescribed by a psychiatrist. The big-voiced singer also says that she hopes that by talking about her own struggles that it will help others.
Here's more of her emotional letter:
- "I am a strong and powerful woman who is aware of the love I have around me from my team, my family and friends, my doctors and from my incredible fans who I know will never give up on me. I will never give up on my dreams of art and music. I am continuing to learn how to transcend this because I know I can. If you relate to what I am sharing, please know that you can too. I believe that the most inexpensive and perhaps the best medicine in the world is words. Kind words … positive words … words that help people who feel ashamed of an invisible illness to overcome their shame and feel free."