Oprah's 2020 Vision Tour Visionaries: Lady Gaga Interview

[Music] welcome to Oprah's 20/20 visionary talks from the stage of my own 20/20 vision your life and focused tour ww-wait watches reimagine and I join forces to bring you candid conversations with some of the world's most famous trailblazers whose story of wellness will empower you to discover the highest Troost vision for your life we're ready so when I decided to hit the road with WW for a full day of wellness I knew one of the things I wanted to do was to invite some of the country's most influential trailblazers and game changing thinkers in the world to join me so these are the rare few who have actually channeled their fame and harnessed their own experiences to become a force for all that it means to be well and to do well in this world so I'm honored that my very first guests came to Fort Lauderdale to share herself with all of us today please welcome the incomparable Lady gaga [Applause] [Music] hey welcome thank you so much for having a welcome welcome let the people absorb it all thanks for coming I I was saying to reporters yesterday I was really nervous about asking you first of all because I it's one of those things I was so nervous about asking you and then you asked me and I was like moved my vacation I'd do anything for Oprah and that's why because you know people are usually on vacation and just sort of getting back into the year but the fact that you said yes so immediately when we were actually having a conversation that ended up in Elle magazine and you were so forthcoming and so honest that was like we need to be sharing this with some people on a stage so thank you thank you so much so we've been talking about vision and everyone gave up their Saturday to come out and start the process of getting clarity for their own vision they knew you were coming too so I think you're a part of it I think I think this stadium would have been a full without me Oprah I'm pretty sure you can fill think it's the whole package that people are seeking higher ground for themselves people are looking to make the best life possible and you know what what I want that for every person in this room and I want it for the world yes absolutely I want to know when you got clarity for yourself about the vision of creating gaga well you know at first when I was younger I I went through a lot of struggles in high school I was really bullied I didn't feel good about myself and I cut made fun of like why do you want to be a singer why do you want to be a musician why do you want to be an actress and I I felt so secluded and isolated and it was time once I dropped out of college I will admit stay in school but I dropped out of college because I was like I have to pursue my dreams as a musician this is what I want and it was in creating Gaga that I was able to create a superhero for myself it was a vision for the me that I wanted to be I wanted to be confident I wanted to be filled with self compassion I wanted to be filled with compassion for others and I wanted to share my story and my vision of the world with the world and so you created this sort of alter person Gaga who they do now has become me also I mean I don't know what happened but it's a servant but but that's what happens when you have a vision for yourself you see you can be here right and then you have your vision and then all of a sudden the two merge they come together you become a line yes and you say that Lady Gaga create the creation of Gaga actually gave Stephanie the wings to fly Gaga myself has given me the wings to fly and what I was going to you know add is that now after almost over a decade of being in the industry I really recognize my position that people are watching me now I could hyper focus on being objectified or being in tabloids or being gossiped about but you know what I'm thinking to myself oh the world is watching and I have something important to say and I want to change people's lives now my mission is different and I have a responsibility to this whole world yes one of the things that we discussed in l/i one of the things that surprised me when we talked about it in the recent Elle magazine you were saying I was saying you have spent a lot of time shocking the world that meat dress was the first time we all like we're kind of a gasps and you said you have now reached a point in your life where you don't feel the need to create some identity of shocker shocking people yes I think it was something that I enjoyed tube amuse people you know so that they would listen to the music and that there was sort of a state of confusion of who is this woman I don't really I'm like it's kind of like you know rocking watching a train wreck you know but the truth is that that was part of my art form was how do I get people to see and watch and listen and become engaged with me on a personal level even though it felt quite superficial I think for a lot of people and it's changed since then because number one it's no longer shocking to have pink hair and number two I think the most shocking thing that I could possibly do is be completely vulnerable and honest with you about my life how what I've been through the struggles that I've seen that I've also been a part of and share that with the world so that I can help other people who are suffering and one of those things that I deeply care about is mental health yes [Music] Gaga has agreed so graciously to be a part of a series that I'm doing for Apple TV with Prince Harry on mental health and she's agreed to allow us actually to follow her through a lot of the process one of the things that struck me when you were at the Oscars and everybody started whispering about was it true that you and Bradley were were not a we're not or we're not and and Gaga tell them what you told me I said we did a really good job at fooling everyone because they're actors we created that they created the whole thing because it wouldn't have worked if you didn't believe that they were in love I mean I don't know if everyone here knows who Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire were but would you have wanted to watch them perform and look like they hated each other yeah so one of the things I loved was your speech where you laid it all out there in the few seconds that you had you said if you're home and you're watching this right now all I have to say is this is hard work I've worked hard for a long time and it's not about just winning it's about not giving up and if you have a dream fight for it and this is a part I love so much all this is worth a quote there's a discipline for passion and it's not about how many times you get rejected or you fall down or you've been beaten up it's how many times you stand up and are brave and you keep on going I just love that there's a discipline for passion thank you there is there is a different discipline for passion and guess what this book that you've given everyone today yes this entire event this is also an exercise in a discipline of passion for yourself this is the time that is for you to give back to you when you give back to yourself you sit in a state of gratitude and then you are able to give to those around you and be kind that is how we the world so someone had asked you what do you see when you look at that Oscar and you say you see a lot of pain and it was that because of the hard work or is that because of the actual physical mental pain that you had to go through up until that moment to get it well it's not a huge secret but some of you might not know and the audience tonight or who's watching but I struggle with mental health issues and I struggle also with chronic pain some call it fibromyalgia or neuropathic pain what does that mean fibromyalgia what does it mean that is a very big question Oprah so fibromyalgia is essentially a chronic pain condition that makes your body hurt through your brain now someone that might be watching this that has it might be saying don't tell me that my fibromyalgia is in my head because my whole body hurts and even sitting here with you today I am in head-to-toe pain but what's interesting about it is that I have found through neuropsych research and my relationship with my doctors that fibromyalgia can be treated through mental health therapy and mental health is a medical condition it should be treated as a medical condition it should not be ignored and I so twice you've said you have mental health issues yeah what does that mean for you because as I was sharing with you on the phone I have a girl school with girls who've come from traumatic backgrounds yes and I didn't know until I started the school because I had this idea that I'm gonna create this school and everybody's gonna come and they're gonna give me an education they're gonna go out in the world everything's gonna be fabulous I had no idea the impact that trauma yes has on your mental health well I've shared this with you and I will share again very vulnerably with all of you I could open my book and read it but I'll just tell you so I was raped repeatedly when I was 19 years old and I also developed PTSD and as a result of the rape as a result of being raped and also not a processing that trauma I did not have anyone helped me I did not have a therapist I did not have a psychiatrist I did not have a doctor help me through it I just all of a sudden became a star and was traveling the world going from hotel room to garage to limo to to stage and I never dealt with it and then all of a sudden I started to experience this incredible intense pain throughout my entire body that mimicked actually the illness that I felt after I was raped so what that are you raped by someone you knew I was raped by someone that I know repeatedly and it was a trauma response so when you asked me about what fibromyalgia is what I would like for you to know and to shine a light on is that many people don't know what it is and we need to all get together and figure this out and this is how we're gonna do it there's the neuropsych aspect there's also an immunity aspect that where there is a possibility that the immune system has something to do with fibromyalgia or trauma response or neuropathic pain whatever you want to call it and there's also some similarities in my condition to autoimmune diseases but fibromyalgia is not an autoimmune disease so what I take an oath as a commitment today with you is it's 2020 and for the next decade and maybe longer I'm going to get the smartest scientists doctors psychiatrists mathematicians researchers and professors in the same room together and we are going to go through each problem one by one and we are going to solve this mental health crisis so when you are raped and you have no way of processing that the triggers come in all forms in ways that you cannot predict and show up in your life in areas that at the time you don't know that this is mental illness you shared with me that you became a cutter I did and scars and that you have scars from cutting can you explain to me because I have girls at my school who cut and I I still to this day don't understand what it means and I know if you are in this audience some of you have raised daughters who were cutters yeah what what what is that well I like to say I used to cut yeah as opposed to saying cutter and I think I did say that with you wouldn't you in our interview I love you too sweetheart I like to say I used to cut as opposed to I am a cutter because then that like like I then I identify with it yeah and that's not healthy for me and when you speak things out into existence you're feeding back something to your brain that you don't want to write right so I used to cut cutting for me I believe happens for a variety of reasons I also used to throw myself against the wall I mean I used to do some horrible things to myself when I was in pain and the truth is is there's two reasons I believe that this happens and this is my own personal expertise just from my experience is that for half a second right if you cut it you get some relief from the other pain that you're feeling because you have pain somewhere else but then after what happens is is then you see the blood and then you feel chaotic and then you spiral more and more out of control and it is actually not helpful in any way and it is going to make your spiral worse it will make the neurotic state that you're in something that is going to be prolonged instead of shortening the amount of time that you're in it another reason though that people cut also is to show and my mom and I always say with born this way foundation tell me don't show me so sometimes I would cut because I didn't want to feel pain and other times I would cut because I wanted to show people that I was in so much pain you were in pain I needed help yeah and so when you were speaking on stage at the Oscars about working it's not about winning it's about never giving up all the times you were beaten up and you kept getting up what kept you getting up all of you and women like you faith inspiration hope and I also have to say I have to say it and I know that this is controversial in a lot of ways but medicine really helped me and I I I think a lot of people are afraid of medicine for their brains to help them and I really want to just raise the stigma around this because I am sick of saying it over and over and over again and also by the way if your primary care doctor is is prescribing you an antidepressant this should not be happening your primary care doctors should be introducing you to a psychiatrist who is an expert in brain medication and what what moves me so much in this space and why I want to work so heavily and much more thoroughly through it in the future is that not everybody has access to these things and not everybody has the money for these things and I want the money for it I want the best doctors in the world and I want us to understand the brain and all get on the same page about it so that Gen Z does not have to deal with this the way that we are right now mental health is a crisis and so medication has helped you medications helped me tremendously I mean I I take an antipsychotic I'm I'm in the 1.4 percentile of people that do but if you didn't take that medicine what would happen what would your life be like I would I would spy out a spiral very frequently and I would spasm in my sleep Wow so are you able to remain creative in the midst of the pain yes really yes and that has come from both medicine therapy dialectical behavioral therapy cognitive therapy DBT therapy CBT therapy yes and also it's come through something that I learned through DBT which is called radical acceptance I am sitting here with arguably the most powerful woman on the planet thank you and I have radically accepted that I will put my shame in a box all the way over there and make it very small mmm and say to myself I have mental health issues I take a lot of medication to stay on board and I'm a survivor and I'm living and I'm thriving and I'm strong and I'm gonna take all my life experiences and I'm gonna share them with the world and make it a better place Wow which is what we've been talking about today that you can't move forward with anything in your life until there is actual radical acceptance you have got to I have I had I mean listen I needed it like a glass of wine when they told me this I remember sitting with my doctor seems Andy and Andy's like you need to radically accept that you're gonna be in pain every day and I was like are you kidding me I was like that's how I'm gonna heal it just by accepting that I'm gonna feel awful all the time I'm gonna be in head-to-toe pain constantly and he said you have to radically accept it and guess what it took a little while but I did and you know what else happened after that what slowly the pain dissipated slower and slower and slower and then all of a sudden I can function because I was on the I was on the couch Oprah I was laid out I could not move I was being assessed by doctors to see if they could eat I had a psychotic break I told you this in our interview before yes they were just trying to see if they could get me to move at one point and radical acceptance was key also being open to taking medicine and also being open to talking about my trauma and it's one of the hardest things that any human can face and it's a lot easier to go home and have a bottle of wine or two or three right like just numb it all away right or dig deep well I think this idea of radical acceptance applies to every crisis every difficulty every challenge in your life is what I was saying earlier that all stress comes from wanting something to be what it isn't and it doesn't change until you first accept it for what it is and then make a decision about what do I do next it's problem-solving you know it's something in DBT that they teach you is about emotion and then I'll explain it so if I say I'm upset right then I'll say why am I upset and then I will write down all the reasons and then I will check the facts and if the emotion of feeling upset fits the facts then I'll go to the next stage and I will say okay what action am I going to take now to solve this problem so if I'm upset because I'm in pain right then what's my action going to be I'm going to take my medication that's going to help me I'm going to reach out to a friend or my doctor and tell them that I'm not feeling well and I'm gonna try to get to the core of the issue inside of me and speak it out into existence and do the cognitive work to say I am upset because today I am triggered about being raped when I was 19 and I'm having a trauma response and I'm gonna take my medication and I'm going to try to calm down my nervous system as much as possible so that this pain dissipates and that's the process for you that is the process that's one of many processes I can I can get triggered by lots of different things by movies things that people say I could get triggered by this conversation yeah I'm not whatever I don't want you to be triggered by this conversation you know what I found interesting you became famous really quickly even though there had been so much work put into getting to the point where we then knew you and you became famous and you made the decision or have made the decision that you're not interested in just fame but you're also looking for impact I want impact I always did I thought it was just through music at one point I had some dreams of being an actress and then it really was a spiritual awakening for me I mean I consider myself a spiritual religious woman I don't go to church every Sunday but I do pray every day I prayed like eight times before I came out here with you hope is like God just tell me what to say and the truth is that once I became famous I thought to myself well I could I will and I want to continue making music I will and want to continue being in movies but I want to help people these people that come to my shows I don't want to just take your money and sing for you I want to help change your life and I have all this life experience and and I can't you know when I talk to God right and you know whatever you want to call it for yourself if it's God or the other realm or your angels or by any name by any name did wish upon any gender right in response when I when I talk to God I say tell me what you do because I'm being watched and I want to do the right thing here so tell me what to say tell me how to say it and help me see the path and if you show me that path I will walk down it and do you know what Oprah look where that path has led me I am sitting right next to you ah every time asking you shall be given what has been your greatest spiritual awakening I think my greatest spiritual awakening actually has been quite recent I think it's that I realized that I have the chronic pain that I have for a reason and I don't mean to be like God gave it to me you know and I don't also don't believe in that like you know karma thing where like you're sick because you did something bad yeah but I do believe that this was this happened for a reason all the things I've been through I think they had they were supposed to happen I was supposed to go through this even the rape even the rape all of it I think I was supposed to go through all of these things I radically accept that they happened and I think it happened because God was saying to me I'm going to show you pain and then you're gonna help other people who are in pain because you're gonna understand it mmm cause you can't you can't give what I can't look away because now when I see someone in pain I can't look away because I go up no you're in pain I'm in pain too and then now I'm in problem-solving mode I got my suit on in my heels and I'm ready to go yes so this wisdom came from this pain what has been the lesson that's actually taking you the longest to learn how to be wise see there is the rational mind and there is the emotional mind and I think from day to day we all experience ourselves if we're mindful in some type of way which I think this is good to be mindful about is am i operating from an emotional space today or from a rational space today meaning when I say rational I means cerebral like intelligence thoughts facts you know just really pragmatic an emotional meaning like am i operating from the heart am i really upset because my boyfriend broke up with me and I'm a mess you know and I'm just being completely irrational why's sits in the center why is this when you are both rational and emotional at the same time and those two things meet and you become wise and that was the lesson that I learned I mean I I had to learn how to pull myself back from either place and then sit in the center because actually a psychotic break and if you look in the brain or it's sort of a metaphor about the brain it's like if you're centered or you're in here because you had a psychotic break I had a psychotic break up I'll explain what happened okay so here's my brain right here's my Center right and then I was triggered really badly in a court deposition and I just like this this part of the brain where you stay centered and you don't disassociate right it went like this it slammed out and my whole body started tingling and I started screaming where were you I was in a hospital and it's very it's very difficult to describe what it feels like other than that you first are completely tingling from head to toe and then you go numb but what is essentially happening as the brain goes that's enough I don't want to think about this anymore I don't want to feel this anymore boom and literally break from reality as we know it you break from reality as we know it you have no concept of what's going on around you there there is nothing wrong but you are in a traumatic state that you feel like like I remember going into the hospital and screaming why is no one else panicking why aren't you panicking and then they brought a psychiatrist in and and I'm in head-to-toe pain at the same time right and they run in a psychiatrist and I said can you get me a real doctor mm-hmm and he was like hey so nice to meet you and he sat down and I was like I need medicine I don't feel well I can't feel my like I'd help me right and then he just said I need you to explain to me what happened today and I was so annoyed but I'm telling you this story because even I who run Born This Way Foundation with my mother was irritated that they brought a psychiatrist and to help me I mean that's how like gone I was I was so separated from the world and once we started talking he realized what had happened to me and then he ordered a medication for me that I took reluctantly at first and then he became my psychiatrist and assembled a team for me and I went away to a place that I go to sometimes still for like a reboot yeah and they took care of me and we've got all of the things lined up and I have a very unorthodox actually set of pills that I take but they they saved my life and I'm very grateful well I think this is this is remarkable that you feel so open hearted vulnerable enough to share this was there a time when you were afraid of getting out like Gaga's had a psychotic break y'all you know I think I was more scared of the psychotic break itself than I was about people knowing about it I mean when your brain like flatlines like that I mean it's it's it's it's something I would never want to ever experience ever again and wouldn't that happen did you were you thinking about your famed life your life as Lady gaga were you thinking those days may be over where you think I am I was thinking two different things so to answer your first question at some point I had to tell people because I can't live a lie I'm an authentic person and Here I am and I'm I'm perfectly imperfect you know it's like and we all are and we all have our things that we go through and I just felt like why wouldn't I share this when I share all of my self with the world all the time and I could maybe help people that have had psychotic breaks or maybe are on the verge of having one and you know spread my message and but when I was there one of the very first things that we talked about in my therapy work was objectification and that I didn't feel that I belong to myself anymore I felt that I belonged to the world Wow so how did you get you back for you a lot of hard work yeah are you still in the process of that I I'm past that part I will I feel that I belong to myself now and I feel also that I belong to the world and I've made peace with those things that I think and I'm happy with them but you know it takes the hard work the same way that this book is hard work yeah meaning you have to go in and you got to really answer those questions like don't be don't be crafty don't try to get a good score I thought some people we learned a lot by watching people do it today because I think for some people it's the first time they've ever actually asked themselves that question some of these questions and it takes time to actually think about what your true answers are and and also the ego yes it's got to go because the ego just wants to score how's that the ego wants to win the test buzz I'm perfect yeah don't do it you're doing yourself a major disservice go in there and answer those questions authentically and then study them and radically accept your score this is where I am and wherever you are that's where you're supposed to be right now it's where is the sphere right now and then you can actually problem-solve you cannot problem-solve if you're lying to yourself see I got to a place where I didn't know who I was anymore so I broke my broke my brain shut off right but once I started to get to know myself again I was able to you know why don't you know yourself anymore is it because you've given so much of yourself to the little monsters to your fans to the world to your work I just didn't stop moving I just was moving and moving and working and working and dancing through insurmountable pain and I will say it took years for me to be diagnosed with fibromyalgia and even if you ask my psychiatrist he doesn't even refer to it as that he'll call it neuropathic pain or a trauma response so I was going to the doctor all the time getting like my whole body x-rayed MRI and everything for someone to tell me something was wrong like tell me I haven't herniated discs or something and they couldn't find anything and it was so so frustrating so I was also on tour dancing in excruciating pain and I wasn't properly medicated and I wasn't in therapy and so what were you telling you so I was afraid I was gonna die so you're performing on stage in front of thousands and thousands of people all over the world and every night going to bed thinking you were gonna die yeah and you lived that way for how long I would say I lived that way for about five years that's so sad and I radically accept those five years mm-hmm because they made me who I am I get that I get that but it also feels Gaga so lonely you know I think we live in this instant grammed world where everybody wants to be famous and they want to post their lives as they want us to think that it is and this idea of what your life is like and what we see and what we've been exposed to about you people think oh gosh I would just love to have that life you can't have this life unless you're willing to have every part of this life including the rain right you have to have ever take it take it all well ending the rape and also no one wanting to help me you know in an industry where everyone has someone on each other so no one wants to help you out really oh yeah no one wanted to help me no one wanted to help me go after that person put that person where they belong which is Jail yeah and I'm not ashamed of it but I you know through the whole meeting movement I've made the personal choice not to say who it is because I choose to not relive it and that's my personal choice and I hope that the world respects us but let's talk about the loneliness for a moment I think everybody has this assumption that if you're famous you're always surrounded by people who are doing things for you and you're being supported and nourished and given everything that people imagine in their lives they would want for themselves but it's also a lonely journey it's it's it's lonely and when you have chronic pain it's extra lonely because it's just you that has that and you can't make someone else feel it you feel completely alone and let me tell you something I might be famous but if you think that someone's bringing me caviar all day they're more likely to be giving me a bowl of ice to dunk my head in so I don't have a dissociative state hmm so my friends that I work with I don't ever say that people work for me they take care of me every single day so that I can be healthy and do my work do what I love and also because they so much believe in my mission and for all of them that are here today I would like to thank you so much for what you have done for me my second family so that I can be here with Oprah and talk to you about this importance of self-care and shine a light on something that is so important let's be radical let's change things so you had radical acceptance and what you just mentioned looking at yourself from the point of view of I just said to report yesterday giving more love to yourself how did you learn to move from radical acceptance to radical love for yourself first well you know some days are better than others some days I have lots of self-love some days I have less some days I have lots of self-confidence some days I have less but I had to radically just accept that that every day can be different and that's okay it doesn't mean we're not moving forward if you you know in therapy they say sometimes when you take three steps forward you might also take one step back what's important is to try to keep tabs on making sure that if you take two steps forward you don't also do something that takes you 10 steps backwards at the same time so you know my practice and my commitment is is gratitude and gratitude even in the midst of the pain gratitude even in the midst of the pain I do this all the time I will be laying on my porch and pain crying and I will say thank you God for this pain thank you I surrender it to you this is this pain is meant from me in my body right now I'm here in this moment and I'm learning thank you for teaching me Wow amen to that so what's the things that you do on a regular basis to keep yourself whole medication so you're medicated all the time yes every day every day what's your ritual if I took my pill box that I would sound like a rattle like a baby rattle really oh yeah okay I mean I don't mean to laugh at it it's kind of funny and and has even I'm healthier than I've ever been in my whole life does the medication effects your creative process at all it does not affect my creative process I don't take anything that does when I get further down the road of creating this epicenter of mental health and healing I will share more with the world on a scientific love so what you're not medicines are you're not on pain medication I take no narcotics at all no pain mint no no yeah if I call my doctor and I'm in a lot of pain and I say I need I need somebody to take this pain away it's just too much it's been a you know it's been 11 days it's been 11 days he says well you can go to the hospital and you can ask them to give you pain medication and then I'm gonna tell them now and it's what they're gonna give you is already in your purse so just go to your purse and take your medication and be in pain in the privacy of your own home and he doesn't mean it to be not nice to me it's just that this is how we keep me safe you know and this is how I want to keep the world safe as well I don't want people in pain taking pain medication this is not the way that this is going to work people will become addicted and there is there is a correlation between mental health and chronic pain and mental health is the biggest crisis in the world right so what's happening is is while mental health is the biggest health crisis that we have right there's also chronic neuropathic pain being produced by this so I want to just be clear cuz I don't want people leaving here today saying you know she's on drugs I want to be very clear so you're on antidepressants I'm on antidepressants I am on a medicine called methyl carbon mall and I am on an anti-psychotic called olanzapine and I take a few other things that are stress based yeah but I want to be very careful about saying any of this you know in a public way to tell anyone what to take you know this is not it's not the same for everyone so I want to be very clear that if you feel that you need help you need to go to a psychiatrist and you need to be properly evaluated by that psychiatrist so that you can get the help that you truly need what I take is not necessarily what you need to take and did you have to go through a series of different drugs until you got the right one because I know a lot of yeah yes I did I did I had to go through a series and actually one that helped me the most was a drug called modafinil I don't know if anyone knows that drug but um it's a it it's in the morning when I wake up and I'm in tremendous pain most of the time and it just kind of turns the lights on and my brain just kind of wakes up and then before I know it the pain starts to dissipate a little bit so but no narcotics no narcotics no pain pills no pain pills no xanax not even a xanax not even as better [Applause] [Laughter] okay I'm not judging you okay don't I mean we could make we could offline have a conversation about other drugs that are better than that okay listen I only I started taking xanax after my dog Luke was we needed Luke to take xanax to fly because he was like a wreck flying and it calmed him so I thought I might need one of those so when I'm traveling traveling or when you sign your tax returns traveling I'm traveling and in various time zones I can't get to sleep I take a half of one of Luke's pills you looked at me with such shame in your eyes there is no solution I have my baby rattle okay how do you have your xanax and we all need our things I don't call it xanax I call it Luke's pills anyway no shame no shame no shame no shame actually that is very important because look it might be a process you know and you might have to show you this and then try that but the important thing is that you're working with someone that's an expert in medicine so please when you leave here today having heard from me about this or anyone that's watching this later you know please leave no knowing that I'm sharing my personal experience with you but I am NOT prescribing you okay and got that right you understand yes okay and I'm not at liberty to prescribe you I just I'm sharing my story and I haven't a nor unorthodox box of medication and it has changed my life so you use medication but you also do many other things to keep yourself spiritually sound yes so I meditate yeah I do Transcendental Meditation it's it's great yeah Bob Roth taught me Bob Roth taught me okay great sorry okay so I do that and when I slip up on it you know it's not the best because it's like it's better when I do and sometimes I can be in a ton of pain and meditate and it goes away it's amazing I also work out every day but I also listen to my body so if I'm in a lot of pain and deep stress I might not do either as hard of a workout or I might you know not work out at all I do listen to my body and I listens to what it's telling me I do talk therapy dialectical behavioral therapy and I also do lots of other things like opposite action for example so let's say you're feeling really depressed and you're at home and you've been at home for seven days straight and you just can't leave the house and you just you practice opposite action someone invites you to go somewhere or you reach out to a friend and you say hey you want to play a game of poker get up get in your car and go opposite action that's something that I do all the time so you're actively working on yourself all the time all the time I actively work on myself I have to if I don't I will sit and I will be in pain all day so when is the process of creating lg6 happening [Applause] four years four years four years not for years but for years okay and it's happening aha okay don't worry we're having a self-care conversation but I still I'm going to make music don't worry because we were talking earlier I was talking earlier to Julianne Hough and she said the dance is your superpower oh yeah your superpowers are power is music you know I think I have a few superpowers I just haven't used them all yet I'm getting ready I've got a wand in my purse I know your superpower certainly one of them was creating the Born This Way Foundation I think it's one of the greatest things you've done thank you not only did you have that great that that anthem that became an anthem for so many people's lives to say I radically accept myself as I am because I was born this way so tell us what you intend it because intention is so important to us what you intended when you created the work of that foundation the work of that foundation was something that a lot of people didn't understand for a long time yeah they're like what do you guys do like you raise money for what we were like for a kinder and braver world and they would go like that it's really that simple we just we want to create create a kinder and braver world and they're like I don't understand so what we do is we do research and we also provide resources so that people can learn more about mental health the importance of kindness and also we've put mental health first aid in schools around the country and as also part of my commitment this might be separate from the other epicenter of healing work that I want to do is I want a mental health professional in every school in country we need it and we need it I want mental health to be its own class what is health class sex ed is that what we're still doing is sex ed I don't even know I mean like what are we learning about in health class we should be learning about the brain and then we're learning about the brain the body and its connection and all the things yes so I want there to be someone in every school that someone can go to if they're in need of help or that someone can go to if they see that someone else needs help and then at the same time it is a requirement in every school that you learned about the importance of kindness you learn about triggers you learn about depression forty-four percent of the population is suffering from depression and it's because of loneliness this is because of our cell phones and social media this is not lonely because we don't have partners so we are literally collapsing around each other all that there's all these walls and we're collapsing around each other unable to have this personal interpersonal connection it's it's got to stop it's gotta stop and I know one of the things you're doing to Born This Way Foundation is your approach to courage is to take little bites of bravery and teaching other people how to tap which I love this idea of little bites of bravery just be a little braver every day you know it's like if you feel like you can't do something just just go do a little just a little bit and I promise you before you know it you're taking a big ol bite of bravery and it's amazing it's it's it's enik and it can be something small like for me if I don't feel well and maybe I have an off day have nothing to do but I don't feel well simply by you know taking a bath and massaging some CBD oil on my body and then going to the mirror brushing my hair putting on some makeup getting dressed you know that these are also things that you learn in DBT right that if you don't feel well what might whether it's mind or body just you got to keep moving you got to keep going it's called throwing yourself into the moment throw yourself into the moment to take a little bit of a bite of that bravery even if you only make it to the bath and you don't make it to the mirror you did something and I know that for you I would say gratitude is my religion it's the thing I practice with you know deep consciousness and a sense of like regularity and discipline about it and for you that is kindness it is kindness kindness hills the world the earth is a slowly rotting apple on a kitchen counter oh no it's the truth okay I'm sorry but it's just true I mean it's like you just put the Apple in writing competence but it's slow it's really slow right but we have to be kind to that Apple to the humanity of that Apple and we have to being kind to the environment to keep an apple alive as long as possible and that's your kindness yes yeah and I have actually my commitment here I want to hear your commitment I commit to gratitude to bring the greatest minds I can find in the world together to one-by-one solve the mental health crisis that is plaguing our world I want to create an epicenter of healing because when I give to others I give also back to myself indeed Lady gaga gave up our vacation to come and sit and share her truth with us thank you just say Oprah I love you I love you back girl lady gaga you

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Id: f8iNYY7YV04

Length: 56min 2sec (3362 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 08 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/JunkyGS]

The fact Gaga talks about CBT & DBT and all these tools she learned from them that I’m currently learning in therapy is so fucking powerful. It feels so validating and empowering to know she is learned the same shit I am and that it works for her.

This is such a stan worthy interview! Can’t stress enough how important representation is for these sort of things to give those with similar struggles hope ❤️

[u/spikethroughmyheart]

Does she bring up LG6??