Prince Harry makes new revelations about his mental health, in the documentary series he produces for Netflix, titled Invictus, the medals of resilience.
Testifying before veterans and soldiers affected by post-traumatic stress, the prince shares his own traumas, sparked by his service in Afghanistan.
“In my personal experience, my deployment to Afghanistan in 2012, flying Apaches, was followed by a period of collapse. For me, the trigger was the return to Afghanistan, but the traumas that surfaced date back to 1997, when I was 12 years old. ”, he explains in the documentary, online this Wednesday.
“I turned it down”
It was at the age of 12 – he turned 13 a few days later – that Harry lost his mother, Princess Diana, who died in a car accident on August 31, 1997.
“The loss of my mother at such a young age, the trauma I suffered, I never realized it, he delivers. We never talked about it, I never really talked about it, and I pushed it away like most young people would.”
“But when he came back, I couldn’t sit still. I wondered what was going on. My emotions went up tenfold. The hardest part was that no one around me could help me. I had no support structure, no network, no experts to help me. help me. help me identify what was happening to me.”
“Nightmare Period”
It is not the first time that the prince has spoken of his difficulties in coping with this trauma, once he became a young adult.
“From 28 to 32, it was a nightmare stage in my life,” he revealed in 2021 in another documentary series on mental health.
“I was determined to drink, I was determined to do drugs, I was determined to try all the things that could make me forget everything I felt.”
Invictus Games: Resilience Medals It was directed by Orlando von Einsiedel and produced by Joanna Natasegara, the duo behind the film. the white helmetsOscar for Best Documentary Short Film in 2017.
This is Harry and Meghan’s third production for Netflix, after harry and meghanthat he returned in particular to his departure from Buckingham for California, and lives to leada documentary series focused on important contemporary figures.
The Invictus Games, this sports competition that brings together injured or disabled war veterans, will be held this year in Düsseldorf, Germany, from September 9 to 16.
Source: BFM TV
