Special Episode: Mental Health First Aid and Lady Gaga’s Mom
The Hilarious World of Depression
American Public Media
4.8 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
CPR training has been widely available for many years now and offered in a variety of convenient ways. But what if the problem isn't physical but mental? A new wave of first aid training is rapidly sweeping the world and people are learning what to do and what not to do in a crisis. A driving force in this movement is the pop singer Lady Gaga, whose charitable organization, the Born This Way Foundation, has been offering the training in cities Gaga tours. We talk with that group's co-founder Cynthia Germanotta, aka Lady Gaga's mother, and Linda Rosenberg, President and CEO of the National Council for Behavioral Health.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Cameron Espazito and I have a lot of jobs. I'm an actor. You've seen me on ABC's and a million little things. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm a stand-up comic bestselling author, but I am no expert at survival. |
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| 0:26.4 | Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.6 | Music |
| 0:44.6 | The guy goes in to see a doctor says there's something wrong with me I've got. |
| 0:51.2 | The sadness I can't shake now is there something I can't take now. |
| 0:59.1 | It's the hilarious world of depression. I'm John Moe and this is not the start of season 3. |
| 1:05.5 | Not quite. Season 3 is coming your way in August and we have been doing a lot of work on it. |
| 1:10.7 | It's going to be fantastic. This is a pre-season bonus episode about a couple of things that have been |
| 1:17.1 | on our mind lately. We're going to talk in a few minutes here with Cynthia Germanada, |
| 1:21.6 | also known as the mother of Stephanie Germanada, who is also known as Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga's mom |
| 1:28.2 | on the show. She's also the co-founder of the Born This Wave Foundation, which sprang out of the |
| 1:33.8 | success of Gaga's musical career and the dedication really of both mother and daughter to the cause |
| 1:40.0 | of mental health and breaking stigma. Particularly by way of training in something called mental health |
| 1:45.6 | first aid. Think CPR but for mental health we're going to get into that in a minute. We hear at |
| 1:52.4 | the hilarious world of depression recently worked with Born This Wave to bring mental health first aid |
| 1:57.8 | to our company to American public media and it was amazing and enlightening and we want to tell |
| 2:03.5 | you all about it. So, all right, I said I was going to talk about two things. That was thing one. |
| 2:08.1 | Thing two is that we are days away from the end of our fiscal year and we would love it if you |
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