Global Affairs: International (wk #2)
In response to an article "“Prince Harry 'in total chaos' over mother Diana's death”.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39618169
By Peter Hunt, BBC royal correspondent, UK, Monday 17 April 2017
Prince Harry has revealed he sought counselling after spending nearly 20 years "not thinking" about the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.
He says in an interview with Bryony Gordon from The Daily Telegraph “It was twenty years of not thinking about it, and then two years of total chaos.”
The Daily Telegraph said, Prince Harry, who is now 32, had decided to share about his past with hopes that it would encourage people to break the stigma that surround the issues of mental health. Prince Harry opened up to the Telegraph's Bryony Gordon over a cup of tea at Kensington Palace during a half-hour interview recorded for a podcast on mental health issues. And along with his brother and sister-in-law, Prince Harry is promoting the Heads Together mental health campaign, the London Marathon's charity of the year.
Prince Harry said: "Because of the process I have been through over the past two-and-a-half years, I've now been able to take my work seriously, been able to take my private life seriously as well, and been able to put blood, sweat and tears into the things that really make a difference and things that I think will make a difference to everybody else."
Harry said he was in a “good place” because of the process he’d been through and also has taken up boxing. "Everyone was saying boxing is good for you and it's a really good way of letting out aggression. And that really saved me because I was on the verge of punching someone,” he says.
Prince Harry also said: "My way of dealing with it was sticking my head in the sand, refusing to ever think about my mum, because why would that help?" "(I thought) it's only going to make you sad, it's not going to bring her back. So from an emotional side, I was like 'right, don't ever let your emotions be part of anything.'"
Whether Harry's situation was compounded or not because of his place in the public spotlight I don't know, but I do know that "a person's a person, no matter how big." To put a play on the famous words of Dr. Seuss's 'Horton Hears a Who'. And sometimes we forget that famous people are people too. It is not only refreshing to see a member of the royal family having the courage to be so real with the world, it's a good reminder that we all need help from each other to get through life. Whether it is the help and the support of our family, a close friend, or our community, every human being needs it. We were not designed to do life alone, we have been designed to know others and in turn be known.
