This Saturday, March 4, Prince Harry spoke with Dr. Gabor, famous author of books on childhood trauma. The son of the King of England came back on his attention deficit disorder linked to the death of his mother, Lady Diana.
If Lady Diana’s death shocked a whole nation, it was not without consequences for her youngest son, Prince Harry. After revealing the backstage of his private life in his Netflix documentary and in his Memoirs, Meghan Markle’s husband makes a new revelation about his privacy. In an interview with Gabor Maté, a Canadian doctor specializing in child development, Prince Harry confided about the traumas of his past.
After the death of his mother Diana Spencer in 1997, the little boy’s equilibrium was put to the test. “Since the age of 12, in addition to being in shock, I was in a state of fight or flight,” he reveals to the doctor, even adding the taking of “psychedelic” drugs to fight his demons. “It took everything away from me and gave me a sense of relaxation, liberation, comfort, a lightness that I managed to keep for a while,” he confided. This unfiltered discussion allowed the doctor to diagnose Prince Harry with attention deficit disorder (ADD). His reading of Spare had begun to arouse his suspicions. “Thank you for the free session,” the Prince gently retorted, before confiding in him about the therapy he underwent to treat his unhappiness. “I thought if I went to therapy I would lose everything I remembered about my mother and it turns out that wasn’t the case. I didn’t lose anything, just the opposite,” he explained.
Prince Harry has always felt apart from his family
Prince Harry has never hidden his uneasiness within the royal family. The title of his memoirs, The Substitute in French, speaks for itself. During the interview, he also confided on his differences that have distanced him from the rest of his family. “In my younger years, I felt slightly different from the rest of my family. I felt strange, I felt like my body was there, but my head was somewhere else, and vice versa. And I know my mother felt the same way.”
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He was odd before his mother died she couldn’t handle him appeased him. ADD kids need firm consistent boundaries from both parents he never had them but he is a man now so no excuses for his behaviour
I understand the strangeness and the distance which Prince Harry felt. I believe that l felt it too but l only told my therapist and my doctors. I have spent the greater parts of my life rolling around in the mud with swines as it were. My therapist said l need to be held and comforted. I longed for love, no matter how hard l tried. But l looked for love in all the wrong places. I gave away my resources just to feel a part of some thing real. I went from doctor to doctor looking for a cure. I ran from relationships to new relationships hoping to be truly accepted. Everyone made me into a laughing stock. But l could not stop looking for a cure. I discovered my issues as l read about Prince Harry and his traumatic childhood. Now l want to forgive myself and be kind to myself for the rest of my life. I am not looking for appreciation and approval. I want to work on myself and work on healing my own life from ADD, addiction, depression, anxiety, and bipolar Ian. I am not who l used to be. I am changing slowly and I am learning to love myself and to believe in myself. Now how amazing is that!!