Prince Harry said in a conversation with an addiction expert leaked online that he “always felt a little different” from his family and that his late mother felt the same way.
Several British media, including the BBC, reported this, specifying that viewing the interview was reserved for buyers of his book 'Spare'. Then, speaking about the drug issue, he defines the use of "psychedelic medicine", saying that it would help him "deal with the traumas and pains of the past" and would be like "cleaning the windshield".
Taking cocaine “was nothing for me,” she said, “but marijuana is different, it actually really helped me.” There was no mention, however, of recent royal revelations, such as the request for Harry and his wife Meghan to leave Frogmore Cottage — or whether or not she plans to attend the coronation of her father, King Charles III, scheduled for May 6.
Speaking about his suffering with Gabor Matè, a Hungarian-Canadian doctor and writer, in front of a fireplace in California, Harry said he feared losing memories of his mother Diana, and wanted to “smother” his children Archie and Lilibet with affection to avoid them having the same “trauma” or “negative experiences” he had.
The Duke of Sussex insisted that he did not see himself as a “victim” and that he did not seek sympathy by writing the book, but that after its publication he felt “incredibly free”. In the conversation, Harry denounced the racism experienced by his wife Meghan, and described the book as an “act of service” to break the taboo on mental health issues.
Prince Harry has revealed that he encouraged the royal family to undergo psychotherapy so that his relatives “could speak” his language and understand him better. Harry explained that he “tried to encourage everyone (in the family) to do that,” adding that he has benefited enormously from the sessions, which he considers “necessary.”
“I certainly felt throughout my life, in my younger years, a little different from the rest of my family.” “I felt weird being in this bubble, and I know my mother felt the same way.” “I felt like my body was there, but my head was outside, and sometimes it was the other way around.”
The Duke also spoke about his fears before going into therapy, the fear that he would lose the memory of his mother: “One of the things I was most afraid of was losing the feelings I had for my mother. I thought if I went into therapy I would lose everything I had left, whatever I had managed to retain from my mother.”
He discovered that this was not the case, “I didn’t lose him, on the contrary”, and he realised “that he actually just wanted me to be happy”. Harry spoke to an audience that was online and connected from all over the world: he was also asked what it was like to live an emotionally distant childhood, with few hugs and demonstrations of affection.
And he said that with his children he is making sure “to smother them with love and affection”: “As a father I feel a huge responsibility to make sure that I do not pass on any trauma or negative experiences that I had as a child”. The prince added that his wife, Meghan, has been instrumental throughout the process, to whom he is “eternally grateful” for helping him change his perspective and who he called “an exceptional human being”.
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