Singer, Stefani Germanotta, more popularly known as Lady Gaga, has revealed that she has mental issues and taking anti-psychotic medication because sh
Singer, Stefani Germanotta, more popularly known as Lady Gaga, has revealed that she has mental issues and taking anti-psychotic medication because she ‘can’t always control what her brain does.’
In a frank and open discussion with Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s Beats 1 radio station, the 34 year old singer said that she has found olanzapine helpful – a drug used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar.
She said: “I wrote a song on Chromatica called 911, and it’s about an anti-psychotic that I take and it’s because I can’t always control things that my brain does and I have to take medication to stop the process that occurs. I know I have mental issues and I know that they can sometimes render me non-functional as a human.”
Lady Gaga previously said that she went on medication after being repeatedly raped at the age of 19, leaving her with PTSD.
“And then, I was triggered really bad in a court deposition, and this part of the brain where you stay centered and you don’t dissociate, right? It went like this,” she said, before slamming her hand down.
“And my whole body started tingling, I started screaming. It’s very difficult to describe what it feels like other than that at first, you are completely tingling from head to toe, and then you go numb, but what is essentially happening is the brain goes, ‘That’s enough, I don’t want to think about this anymore, I don’t want to feel this anymore,’ boom,” she said, slamming her hand down again.
Gaga said she was evaluated by a psychiatrist, much to her initial annoyance.
”Can you get me a real doctor?” Gaga recalled asking. ‘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… help me.’ And then he just said, ‘I need you to explain to me what happened today.’ And I was so annoyed.
