Prince Harry, revelations about anxiety, panic attacks, and alcohol consumption: I was willing to drink, take drugs, try and do things that made me feel less than I felt / I consulted doctors, therapists, alternative therapists
Prince Harry revealed in the series with Oprah Winfrey that he had panic attacks and underwent therapy for several years to heal from the past, talked about his wife, who inspired him to seek specialized help, and his son. them, Archie.
In “The Me You Can’t See,” an Apple TV + documentary series he created with Winfrey, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, speaks openly about his mental health.
He said he had been in therapy for 4 years, “to cure me of the past,” and that his wife, Meghan Markle, encouraged him to do so.
“I consulted doctors, therapists, alternative therapists, but to meet her and be with Meghan – then I knew that if I didn’t do therapy and I wouldn’t recover I would lose this woman I could see myself spending the rest of my life with,” he said. he.
Harry’s problems arose after the death of his mother, Princess Diana, in 1997, when he was 12 years old. In his childhood and early adulthood, the prince confessed that “I was not in an environment where he was encouraged to talk about it.”
If people asked, “What are you doing?”, I would say, “Okay.” Never happy, never sad, just fine. The answer was good. But mentally, I was everywhere. ”
With the royal duties, severe anxiety overcame him, he confessed. “Every time I put on a suit and tie, I sweated until I left home, my pulse increased… I was in combat mode or in airplane mode. Panic attacks, severe anxiety… The period from 28 to probably 32 years was a nightmare in my life, I was panicking ”.
“I was willing to drink, take drugs, try and do things that made me feel less than I felt,” he continued. “But, easily, I became aware that, OK, I don’t drink from Monday to Friday, but I probably drink in a day for a week, on Friday or Saturday night. And I drank not because I liked it, but because I was trying to disguise something. ”
He believes that those who suffer because of the environment in which they grow up and live, because of what has happened to them and the things to which they have been exposed, must process all problems, otherwise “they appear in various ways and do not you can still control ”.
In the first episode, Prince Harry also talked about his mother’s funeral. “I remember best the sound of the horse’s hooves on the red stone road.” He and Prince William, then 15, were in shock, Harry said. “It was as if I had left my body.”
“I was just walking and doing what I was expected to do, showing me only a tenth of the excitement that everyone else was showing,” he added.
Prince Harry reiterated that he is still haunted by the memory of feeling helpless while his mother struggles with the tabloid press.
He also revealed that one of the first words spoken by Archie, his 2-year-old son, was “grandma” (grandmother, n.r.), referring to Princess Diana. “It was the sweetest thing, but at the same time, it made me very sad, because she should be here.”
The documentary series “The Me You Can’t See” was released on May 20 and will feature stories by Oprah Winfrey, Lady Gaga, and Glenn Close.