BEVERLY HILLS – Lady Gaga warned her speech Thursday night on the need for mental health programs, with a warning.

"I really feel that I do not belong to here," said the pop starAn Oscar-winning actress told SAG-AFTRA members at the annual Patron of the Artists guild fundraiser, where Spike Lee, Harrison Ford and Jeffrey Katzenberg were also honored.

"So I spent three and a half hours writing what I was going to say, and as I spent all night here, I thought to myself:" Oh my God, your speech is too long and everyone will get bored. "

Around 20 minutes, the speech was long, yes. But the actors' room was fascinated by Gaga's comments from the podium about kindness, mental health awareness and her own difficulties.

"We are losing a generation of young people who do not believe their voices are worth hearing," she said, suggesting that SAG-AFTRA partner with Gaga's Born This Way Foundation. to provide mental health teams to sufferers. "The need for kindness in this world is crippling – negative news and tragedies are uninterrupted and overwhelming."

She raised the shooting Wednesday night in a California bar killing 13, including the suspect.

"We need to share our stories so that the world's mental health no longer resides and disappears in the dark," she said. "It's dangerous and we know it, because among other things, shootings and acts of violence, there was just a shootout at Thousand Oaks last night by a veteran suspected of suffering from a non-traumatic stress disorder. Treated (according to the authorities) Last spring, we had an episode of erratic behavior suggesting PTSD), which is a mental problem.We know that it is dangerous, we know that it is important and we must pay attention. "

She continued, "When I talk about mental health, especially when I talk about mine, we often meet calm, or maybe a dark line of fans waiting outside to whisper in the shadow of their Darkest secrets, we need to shed light on mental health. "

For example, Gaga shared her own "list" of problems she had to deal with.

She had "symptoms of dissociation and post-traumatic stress" which turned into "chronic physical pain, fibromyalgia, panic attacks, acute traumatic reactions and debilitating mental spirals including suicidal ideation and masochistic behavior".

After years of saying "yes" to all the job opportunities that were offered to him, the word "yes" became too automatic and my inner voice went out, which I learned now is very unhealthy, "she said. "I did not have the ability to say no, I started to notice that I would look in the void and stay in the dark for seconds or minutes, I would see flashes of things tormenting me, experiences that were classified.

"I tell you that, because for me, it was too late," she says. "I would like to have mental health resources at that time."

Gaga's lecture, Rachel Bloom, was so captivating that she opened up on her own mental illnesses before closing the show.

"I, too, suffer from anxiety and depression, I thank God every day for my Prozac, and part of the reason I am treated is because I can afford it," Bloom said. "I just want to thank Lady Gaga for this speech."

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