Prince Harry reveals he ‘urged everyone’ in the Royal Family to have therapy
Prince Harry discussed last night during his interview with trauma expert Dr. Gabor Maté how he urged his family to go into therapy.
The Duke of Sussex, 38, answered questions from Dr Maté during what was described as an ‘intimate conversation’ about ‘living with loss and personal healing’.
During the conversation, which began with the royal insisting he didn’t see himself as a victim, he said he was “doing the thing to encourage everyone in his family to get therapy.”
Harry explained: ‘I suddenly realized that I had learned a new language. And the people with whom I was surrounded seemed to me that they did not speak that language.
“So I actually felt pushed to the side more and then I actually said to my therapist, ‘Okay, I have a problem.’
Prince Harry (pictured) said he urged the rest of the royal family to seek therapy during his ‘intimate conversation’ with Gabor Mate last night
He continued, “This is working for me, and I’m starting to… get back to the point of trauma and be able to unravel and unpack everything so that I can now live a really authentic life and be genuinely happy.” . a better father to my children.
“But at the same time I finally feel more and more distant with my loved ones and my family.”
The royal has previously spoken out about the therapy he has followed. He started seeing a therapist after “utter chaos” in his late 20s, before undergoing further five-year analysis after meeting Meghan.
Since moving to the US in 2020, Harry has experimented with different styles, including EMDR therapy, which aims to help someone process trauma.
The explosive Netflix documentary of him and Meghan, released last December, also featured the pair doing an emotionally guided meditation exercise.
Harry’s attempt to get professional help began in his late 20s, when he first saw a “counselor” at the age of 28, or around 2014, because he felt “on the verge of hitting someone and feared royal betrothals.
The 38-year-old royal said he “suddenly realized that [he’d] “learned a new language” after therapy – and that his family didn’t speak the same language
In an April 2017 interview with Bryony Gordon in the Daily Telegraph, Harry said it was only then that he began to deal with the trauma that had caused him “nearly a complete breakdown on numerous occasions”, although Prince William had encouraged him to seek help prior to this point.
At the time of the interview – some nine months after he and Meghan started dating – Harry said he was in a “good place.”
It’s not clear when his therapy ended, but it seems 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 will be released in 2021, Harry recalled how Meghan suggested they see a therapist after they had a fight in the early days of their relationship . .
Harry explained that the trauma of his mother’s death when he was just 12 years old led him to turn to alcohol and drugs to “mask” his emotions and “feel less like I felt.”
He also said he was burned out in his late 20s due to a “hectic” royal engagement schedule and suffered from “severe anxiety and panic attacks” until he was 32, about the same time he met Meghan.
“I knew if I didn’t take therapy and fix myself, I was going to lose this woman that I could see myself spending the rest of my life with,” he told Oprah.
He has now done “four and a little, five years” of therapy.
Prince Harry (pictured, right) claimed in Spare that his older brother Prince William (pictured, left) was afraid his therapist was ‘brainwashing’ him
However, according to Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare, his family hasn’t quite gone along with all the therapies he has undertaken.
The 38-year-old royal claimed in his memoir that Prince William thought he was being “brainwashed” by the therapist he saw.
The Duke of Sussex says his sibling was so concerned about what he was being exposed to during his confidential sessions that he even asked to come along.
Harry also accuses William of believing “I was unwell, which meant I was unwise” when he made plans to leave royal duties behind for a new life abroad.
The Duke also says he tried to fix their relationship with a joint therapy session, telling William it would “be good for you.” Good for us,” but says William declined the offer.