Lady Gaga Offers Free Counseling at Concerts: Should People Seek Therapy at a Show?

If a person needs help, I say let them get it where they are. There should be a McTherapy in every town.

Clown's Head:: "Would you like Prozac with that?"

No, seriously. It's not the availability of fire arms that is killing our young nearly as much as the lack-luster attention we are giving mental health for the young.

When I was a child it was the prevailing medical belief that children were incapable of having headaches. The reasoning behind it was that headaches were caused by stress and that children were not able to experience stress.

We are more enlightened now about migraines and the fact that it afflicts the young as well as the old. But many still think that the young are not susceptible to stress.

I applaud what she is offering to her fans. Maybe SHE has prevented others from acts of violence against there institutions of learning.

We need to also make mental health a priority for the older ones as well.

Not during a show! You're there to have a good time, not think about your problems. Maybe the next day?

ha-ha-ha-ha, I think she may need therapy,

lmfao she's the one who needs counseling

specially not from her.

Those seeking counseling from an entertainer at all should already be wearing the "hug-yourself-jacket" in a rubber room somewhere. Especially if you want therapy from a girl, aside from her outlandish appearances, that is barely old enough to even begin to know what life is like, for that matter, what life is like without fame and money.

Lady Gaga is giving free therapy. Holy crap!!!!

Maybe someone can find out what's wrong with the people that they would want to go to one of her shows in the first place.

especially not from Lady Gaga o ___ o

I think it's a very nice gesture from Gaga, but that is not the right place for people to seek counselling. If that was me I would group by group take some girls or however needs the therapy and take them on a day out with me and then discuss their problems and try my best to help them. But I really do admire that Lady Gaga has thought of doing this for people.

Some people can't get therapy anywhere else! Although I'm not sure I'd take therapy from Lady Gaga...

If you want to do it that way, sure. It might be more comforting to be in a crowd of misfits for some folks.

If you would feel more comfortable of seeking at leat information for mental health questions then she is "Spot On" and the article states professional counselors will be there not HER

Counseling from a woman who wears a meat dress? Do I need to say more?

Yea why not, therapy can be benificial to anyone, anywhere, especially Lady Gaga fans

Why not? If they need help and feel comfortable with getting it in that sort of environment, who's to stop em?

It figures the top opinion would be what it is. We need some real thinkers on this site.



Any place a person seeks out help for mental health issues is a great sign of effort to get that help. I'm sure they are professionals and dont push any other agenda. So a young person going into a bus at a concert in such a "lighthearted" atmosphere to get counseling. That person is probably needing to take those first steps towards recovery.

I didnt like her music much but at least she is doing so much more than other musicians of this time have ever done

Not at a concert. Will she pay for her fans visit to the doctors every time they go?

It is less a matter of "where" they should go than that Lady Gaga is OFFERRING HELP. How many depressed people do you know who will leap at the opportunity to go to some head shrink's office at a hospital complex? Where as putting them at a concert where those suffering mental illness may already be at? is a way to help. How about we build people up instead of tearing them down.

I mean if you need it then get it, but there's a time and place for everything

She is a mainstream entertainer. Her primary audience is not the people who don't fit in.

crotch yodeling lessons I think

WHAT? HELLO! And just what training and education to they have in order
to render them elegible and qualified to do so?

if you GO to a Stefani Germanotta show, you DEFINITELY need psychiatric help :P

Not at a concert venue

Honestly Lady Gaga's heart is in the right place, but not at a show. It should be up to the person or family member who would want to go on there own time to seek prof help. No offense but counseling at a show just takes the time away from a concert or a tv showing. It's great that she looks out for her die-hard fans, but its up to the person to seek it. For those who are badly depressed and are going through a rough time go seek it or call your crisis hotline. Either if it is from bullying, or suicide run rampants, I suggest that family members or who-ever it is that is really badly needing the help go and find when a person is on-call right away immedately because they do have a purpose to live. It's even open to adults as well, as just kids & teenagers. Plus all of us can just prevent suicide from happening as well;

http://www.twloha.com/index.p...

http://crisisline.ca/links.htm
http://www.kidshelpphone.ca/t...

y not?

And just what qualifies her?

Lady Gaga offers help.. ROTFLMAO

It is not something that can be entered into at a show. BUT if you do feel the need then make an appointment for real theraphy while at the show.

id say yes with so many kids out there to struggling with suicidal thoughts and/or self-injury i think its good, who cares who its from as long as they can get the support they need.

A lot of people in her fan base deal with insecurities. Even if her message of "Born This Way" is making them stronger, they still need extra help. Since most people are too afraid or ashamed to go out and get extra help, it's a great idea to offer it for free where everyone can understand each other. As for the people saying "yes because Gaga needs help herself," can you stop judging for a second in your life? Lord.

i hate that bitch

Just for going to her show!

That's awsome she is a great person to do that.

Hell no

Her heart's in the right place. But this stuff should be handled online.