Last Saturday, the Born This Way Singer visited the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence to give a youth workshop on the importance of emotions in school and life, together with her Born This Way Foundation that she and her mother Cynthia Germanotta created.

According to PaperMag.com, the Emotion Revolution Summit, aimed to highlight how young people today are feeling and emphasize the value of emotional intelligence as a means for understanding empowering oneself -- and since Gaga has always been open about her struggles with depression, she used this opportunity to partner her Born This Way Foundation with Yale to provide concrete research to back the value of self-love and understanding.


The singer, who just recently starred on American Horror Story, spoke frankly with her experiences as being a celebrity and how she copes with depression: "I invented myself, Lady Gaga-I curated my life to be an expression of my pain. This is how I overcame my depression, is by creating somebody that I felt was stronger than me. But...nothing was able to fix how I was genetically made. I was born this way. No matter how much success you have, no matter how many opportunities, fame, fortune-no matter how many people accept you, to your face, the person that really needs to accept you is you." "[This is] why we're here today," Gaga continued in her speech. "We're going to talk about why it's important to accept yourself, why it's important to empower yourself and why it's important that emotional intelligence is taken seriously."​

This is about changing people's behavior, changing culture, changing the tone of how we value our feelings. A photo posted by The Countess (@ladygaga) on Oct 24, 2015 at 9:48am PDT


Before starting with her speech, the 29-year-old launched a campaign on her Instagram and Twitter account #IAMNOTJUST in the hopes that everyone would share the campaign and will start as an 'Emotional Evolution.'

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