Prince Harry wishes William “could feel the same benefits of therapy”

Prince William may have been the first person to urge his younger brother to consider therapy, but Harry claims heeding this advice only drove a bigger wedge between the couple.

In his last promotional interview for his memoir, Spare, the Duke of Sussex said The Telegraph he wants his brother ‘to be able to feel the same benefits’ that he has experienced since seeking treatment.

Harry has spoken openly in his memoirs and in subsequent media rounds about using ayahuasca, a psychedelic, with a professional during his treatment.

He says it was this experience that sparked “the acceptance and understanding that she [Princess Diana] He is gone, but he wants me to be happy and he is very present in my life.

‘Like two brothers, if one of you goes through that experience and the other doesn’t, it naturally creates a further division between you. Which is really sad.

“But even though William was the first person to suggest therapy, I just wish you could feel the same benefits of it instead of believing what you don’t need.”

Ayahuasca, a South American plant-based drug usually made into a tea, is made from the leaves of the Psychotria viridis shrub along with the stems of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine.

“The main ingredients of ayahuasca, Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis, have hallucinogenic properties,” says Healthline.

“When combined, these two plants form a powerful psychedelic concoction that affects the central nervous system, leading to an altered state of consciousness that can include hallucinations, out-of-body experiences, and euphoria.”

In Spare, Harry revealed that William believes all his therapy has made him delusional and questioned whether the therapist he was seeing was “brainwashing” him.

The Duke of Sussex says his brother was so worried about what was exposed in his confidential sessions that he even asked to attend one.

And after a particularly nasty brotherly fight, in which William reportedly physically attacked Harry, the ‘spare’ opted to call his therapist immediately afterward, before even speaking to his wife Meghan.

Harry has previously talked about going to therapy to process his childhood trauma, which included the death of his mother, Princess Diana.

She was just 12 years old when Diana tragically died in a car accident.

The Duke praised EMDR, which stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, for helping him deal with his past.

It is based on the principle that the mind can heal from trauma by using external stimuli to help the brain process traumatic experiences and facilitate healing.

Elsewhere in the book, the 38-year-old also confessed to taking cannabis and magic mushrooms, and ended up hallucinating that a trash can was talking to him.

In an interview with 60 Minutes, Harry clarified that “I would never recommend people do this recreationally.”

“But doing it with the right people if you’re going through a great deal of loss or grief or trauma, then these things have a way of working as medicine,” he said.

‘For me, they cleaned the windshield, the windshield, the misery of loss. They took away that idea that I had in my head that she… she needed to cry to show my mother that I missed her. When in reality, all she wanted was for me to be happy.

Harry’s foray into professional help began in his early 20s, when he first saw a ‘counselor’ at the age of 28, or around 2014, because he felt ‘about to hit someone’ and faced anxiety about royal commitments.

It’s unclear when his therapy ended, but it appears there was a break in his sessions before he met his wife Meghan.

In a series of candid interviews with Oprah Winfrey for the Apple+ series The Me You Can’t See, which launched in 2021, Harry recalled how Meghan suggested he start seeing a therapist after they had an argument in the early days. days of their relationship. .

He also said he experienced burnout in his early 20s as a result of a “hectic” royal engagement schedule and suffered “severe anxiety and panic attacks” until he was 32, around the same time he met Meghan.

“I knew if I didn’t get therapy and fix myself, I was going to lose this woman that I could spend the rest of my life with,” he told Oprah.

Prince Harry has also revealed that he has enough material to publish a second memoir and delete almost half of the material he had written in a first draft.

Harry knew that including details about intimate moments with his family would generate backlash, but he ultimately decided he couldn’t tell his story honestly without them.

However, there are details that he knew would cross the line. These memories were shared with the ghostwriter of him for context only and did not make the final cut.

The Sussexes are said to have signed a four-book deal worth more than £16 million ($20 million) with publishing giant Penguin Random House.

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