Lady Gaga says she has post-traumatic stress disorder after being raped at 19

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigmkdc3wqN24UMVGfeppLRFbnB_Cr0ekoM-gtVy_6mTKmtJLuTLNmoFMJu02GJ-ylZFcr6_0JC46En62WV10rfZChSiLMfbn5SM8V8pL8x_4_jQu5hO5FJadqms3vHkkyzqTbv57yjqcv3/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigmkdc3wqN24UMVGfeppLRFbnB_Cr0ekoM-gtVy_6mTKmtJLuTLNmoFMJu02GJ-ylZFcr6_0JC46En62WV10rfZChSiLMfbn5SM8V8pL8x_4_jQu5hO5FJadqms3vHkkyzqTbv57yjqcv3/s640/1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="story-body__introduction" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> US pop star Lady Gaga has revealed she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder since being raped at the age of 19.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 23px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> "I suffer from a mental illness - I suffer from PTSD," <a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://www.today.com/video/lady-gaga-talks-about-rape-and-ptsd-encourages-young-people-to-sharekindness-825006147827" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">she told the Today Show</a> on a visit to a homeless shelter for young gay people in New York.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> "I've never told anyone that before," the star, now 30, added.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lady Gaga said kindness was "the best way" to healing.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> "The kindness that's been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it's really saved my life," the singer said, after bringing presents to the astonished teenagers at the centre.</div> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Meditation helps me to calm down," she said, adding that she was struggling with her mental illness "every day".</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lady Gaga later <a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://twitter.com/ladygaga/status/805785828697874432" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">tweeted:</a> "Today I shared one my deepest secrets w/ the world. Secrets keep you sick w/ shame."</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Source:<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38218247">www.bbc.com</a></div>

Lady Gaga says she has post-traumatic stress disorder after being raped at 19

US pop star Lady Gaga has revealed she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder since being raped at the age of 19. "I suffer f...

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