Prince Harry admits he’s continuing therapy for Meghan Markle

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Prince Harry has not been shy about talking openly about his mental health for a long time and that he is visiting a specialist. But this week it turned out that, living in California, he notices a huge difference in the British and American approaches to therapy. The Duke of Sussex spoke on the Masters of Scale podcast, where he discussed this issue with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and shared the entrepreneur’s opinion.

Reid, you’re absolutely right about the cultural differences, they’re huge,” Duke said. “Here in California, you say things like, ‘I’ll have my therapist call yours.’ At the same time, in the UK it sounds like this: “Which therapist? Whose therapist? I don’t have a therapist. I’ve never talked to a therapist.”

Harry has previously discussed the details of his therapy in several interviews, including on journalist Briony Gordon’s Mad World podcast in 2017.

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown many times, when all kinds of grief, all kinds of lies, delusions and so on hit me from all sides, ”he said then.

In addition, Harry explains his psychological problems by the early loss of his mother, who tragically died in 1997, Princess Diana. According to the duke, he “suppressed emotions for the last 20 years”, and only by the age of 28, on the advice of his older brother, Prince William decided to seek professional help.

My experience is this: as soon as I started talking about it, I immediately realized that I was part of a pretty big club, he admitted.

Wife Meghan Markle also supports the Duke in his quest to stabilize his emotional state and regularly attend therapy sessions. In addition, it was his love for her that motivated him not to stop further therapy, which he admitted earlier in an interview with Oprah Winfrey. Harry was sure that if he didn’t “get cured and reformed, he would lose this woman.”

The Duke also revealed that he has been trying out an EMDR therapy known as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. The method consists in the patient working through the traumatic event by concentrating on various monotonous movements of his own eyes and fingers. Remembering the event at the same time as performing certain actions takes on a different meaning in memory, which as a result helps the brain cope with the trauma.

Note that the last time Prince Harry was seen in The Hague in the company of the King of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander, at the tournament that completed the series of competitions in the framework of the Invincible Games. The meeting between His Majesty and His Highness turned out to be very warm, and both monarchs were in excellent spirits.