

It took a lot to get to this point, but just as Lady Gaga says, “you can come back from things like that, but when it hits you really hard, it can change you.” Now I can speak openly about what I have been through. I went into such a dark place, but I recovered through a combination of therapy, modern medicine, research, advocacy work, and various art therapies.

I was hospitalized for mental health reasons and the institutionalizations made my PTSD worse. At one point, right around the time I finally recalled the rape, I was so traumatized by my experiences that I could barely even write a word. I know this because I also had a psychotic break after sexual assault, and I had to apply these concepts towards healing my mind in order to return to a place of stability. In reality however, the mind is within the body, therefore many of the rules that apply towards healing the body are the same for the mind. Many people treat the entire mental health field as through it is the enigma of medicine. I have said that before and I will say it again, most likely many times over. This explains why it is critical for trauma treatment to engage the entire organism, body, mind and brain.” Van der Kolk continues saying, “These attempts to maintain control over unbearable physiological reactions can result in a whole range of physical symptoms, including fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and other autoimmune diseases. The survivor’s energy now becomes focused on suppressing inner chaos, at the expense of spontaneous involvement in their life.” says, “After trauma the world is experienced with a different nervous system. In The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, And Body In The Healing Of Trauma, author Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. Because I had been being abused, and I was locked away in a studio for months.” Trauma is not just an emotional state “I realized that it was the same pain that I felt when the person who raped me dropped me off pregnant on a corner, at my parents’ house, because I was vomiting and sick. “First I felt full-on pain, then I felt numb, and then I was sick for weeks after.” “I feel my own body,” Lady Gaga describes. When Germanotta had to go to the hospital for acute pain and numbness, she was also sent to see a psychiatrist. Years after the trauma occurred, Lady Gaga reveals that she experienced a “total psychotic break” and also entered into an “ultra state of paranoia.” In the Apple TV+ Series, Gaga further reveals that he “dropped me off pregnant on a corner… because I was vomiting and sick”. I do not ever want to face that person again. She explains, “I understand this #MeToo movement, I understand that some people feel really comfortable with this, and I do not.” Gaga asserts that she will never name her rapist.
