=/ I'm not into Lady Gaga, but from what I've seen, she is very, very outgoing.

 

Don't confuse recreational drug use with SA.

 

LOL, nice one.

 

I'm just shocked that people here who are so often judged badly by people who dont know you, are no better than them and are quick to judge others in a negative way.

Not liking the music is fine, i'm talking about judging a person.

 

About her drug use: She said she doesn't get high anymore. She hinted that she still smokes weed, suggesting it's not really a hard drug, saying, "I don't do it very often. I am honest about it. I don't like or respect artists who lie about what they do recreationally. It builds a separation with your honesty with your fans." She said she doesn't remember the last time she did coke, but at one time, she was "for sure addicted." She said Papa Germanotta got her off the white stuff, and "kicked my ***. Not really. He just called me out." If you know anything about old fashioned Italian fathers … This should not be surprising. She also said the drugs were like a friend and she preferred to use alone in her apartment while she wrote music. "I regret every line I ever did, so to any of the little sweethearts listening, don't touch it, it's the devil!"

 

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2011/02/14/lady_gaga_admits_to_heavy_drug_use_on_

 

But why did she start using drugs, that is the question. Was it the fame, was it stress, something else?

I have heard of people who know her and say she is actually a down to earth, smart person and does not like when people are judged on how they look. Does she have SA, that I have no idea about.

 

Why does anyone start doing drugs?

 

She probably just has self esteem issues like many people in the world.

I watched a little bit of a documentary on her and she was crying before her performance and was saying how she still sometimes feels like that loser kid in school who everyone picks on or something like that.

 

Don't ask me about her man... I hate her oh so much, I don't even have a reason for hating her, I just do.

If she had SA, which I highly doubt, I'd be ashamed to have the same disorder as her...

lol, I don't even know....

 

I think she does. She strikes me as someone with very low self esteem, who does crazy stuff to get attention.

Kind of like the loser kid who becomes a rock musician to get noticed, or dunks basketballs or something.

I can relate, because I started writing songs at age 13 to get noticed. And yes, people noticed me. And yes, I became popular. I wouldn't have made half the friends in high school that I did, had I not had a "cool musician image."

That being said, the meat dress was going way too far...

 

I can relate, because I started writing songs at age 13 to get noticed. And yes, people noticed me. And yes, I became popular. I wouldn't have made half the friends in high school that I did, had I not had a "cool musician image."

I did the whole comedian, class clown thing in my senior year of high school just wanting attention and trying to desperately mask my SA, which worked. Years later when I would tell old classmates of mine that I had serious SA, they seemed completely dumbfounded. Most didn't believe me and still don't believe me to this day.

There have been plenty of periods in my life where I can hide my SA so well, and other times where I let it consume me.

As a teacher, I would tell my students that being up in front of crowds was the scariest thing in the world for me and I remember one student saying, "But you're not nervous now?" And I looked around at this huge group of kids (we have 4 classes in there, approximately 100 students) and I said, "No, because I can control it and because I've learned to be comfortable with everyone here." And I just explained to them how certain fears and worries weren't rational and how it was all about control and mindset.

Anyway, I went through a horrible 2-3 years after that where I feel I hit rock bottom with my SA, and now (recently) I feel I'm back full force, working again, and feeling as creative and alive as ever.

 

Threads like this make me wonder what you people think social anxiety disorder is.

Social anxiety disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by intense fear in social situations[1] causing considerable distress and impaired ability to function in at least some parts of daily life.

If being a successful famous musician and pop icon isn't the antithesis of impaired social functioning, I don't know what is.

I watched her 60 Minutes interview, and I would say histrionic personality disorder would be a much more accurate diagnosis.

 

Threads like this make me wonder what you people think social anxiety disorder is.

Social anxiety disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by intense fear in social situations[1] causing considerable distress and impaired ability to function in at least some parts of daily life.

If being a successful famous musician and pop icon isn't the antithesis of impaired social functioning, I don't know what is.

I watched her 60 Minutes interview, and I would say histrionic personality disorder would be a much more accurate diagnosis.

I think most pop celebrities have this histrionic disorder. then..

 

Im sure she has some kind of anxiety disorder. Im sure most "stars" we know and think are super partying and outgoing are actually really weird. Most people dont get there by being normal.

I mean, these celebrities have to appeal to the average person to get famous...because most people are just that, average and normal. Its their job to act outgoing.

 

Carly Simon struggles with social anxiety. So did Trent Reznor of NIN.

I know Carly refuses to perform or give interviews, because she has panic attacks. Yet she has released 30 studio albums, and is in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame (I think.)

Some people are able to cope. That doesn't mean that they don't have SA.

 

Carly Simon struggles with social anxiety. So did Trent Reznor of NIN.

I know Carly refuses to perform or give interviews, because she has panic attacks. Yet she has released 30 studio albums, and is in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame (I think.)

Some people are able to cope. That doesn't mean that they don't have SA.

Your bringing up Trent Reznor in a conversation about Lady Gaga. Do you not see the problem there. My image of Trent is him locked alone is a basement, high and drunk, writing depressing *** music. My image of Gaga is crowd surfing, naked, making out with a random fan. That pic is everything SA isn't.

Carly Simon wouldn't be caught dead doing that.

My point was not that people with SA can't be successful, my point was that people with SA don't behave like Lady Gaga.

 

I think it's kind of hard to put a disorder on a person that you don't really know anything about.
It's only speculations because if you don't know her personally you just can't know and not even then you'd know.

Also why is it so hard to believe that someone that is succesful and has a job like that can struggle with something like SA.There are various degrees of SA and not everyone has severe social anxiety.Some people could also have that one thing that they feel comfortable and confident doing while in other parts of life they can struggle.
Having social anxiety doesn't mean just one thing and the people that suffer from it are just as different as anyone else.

 

She uses the bullying story as a ploy to keep her unconfident fans. She was popular in high school and was a normal kid. Don't believe everything you read.

 

Im glad someone else can see Lady Gaga for what she really is.

 

Nope, she just snort a lot of Cocaine.
& probably pop a lot of pills.

 

I think people like Lady Gaga are on a search to be happily satisfied. The only difference between them and us is merely the fact they have fame and we don't.

 

I don't think so.

 

Who knows. Most celebrities have a stage image, which is basically acting. It's hard to tell what they're like in everyday life without ever interracting with them in person.

 

I don't know her personally but I suspect she suffers from I'm someone the music industry can count on to deliver high profit margins disease, otherwise referred to in the medical profession as MTD (marginal talent disorder).

 

My friend told me that she has psychosis but I don't know about SA

 

She claims to have been bullied a lot in school for being different. Is that true, or is it just a lie that she uses so her gay/transsexual fans can feel like they relate to her more? I don't know. She grew up in New York and I'm in Canada and I bet bullying is way more common over there. I can't pretend I know what her life was like.

EDIT: I just read some of the other replies and lyric555 basically said what I'm trying to say.

EDIT EDIT: I'm still a little monster 4 lyfe.

 

I'm pretty sure it's pointless to speculate about the mental conditions of famous people with nothing to go by but their public personas. It's ridiculous to think you actually know anything about who these celebrities are.