 Prince Harry has taken more swipes at the royal family by claiming he did not have a support network after returning home from Afghanistan, which he says triggered the trauma of losing his mother. Speaking on his new 'Heart of Invictus' series on Netflix today, Harry said he wanted to cure the 'stigma' associated with mental illness, which he claims was a 'dirty word' when he first joined the military. In the series, Harry said upon his return home from the war in 2008, the 'biggest struggle for me was that no one around me really could help', adding: 'I didn't have that support structure, that network or that expert advice to identify what was actually going on with me.' He also told the show: 'Unfortunately, like most of us, the first time you consider therapy is when you are lying on the floor in the foetal position probably wishing you had dealt with some of this stuff previously. And that's what I really want to change.' Harry spoke of his mental health struggles in his new Netflix series, Road to Invictus (Picture: Netflix) The docu-series, which launched in the UK at 8am on Wednesday, is the latest project from the Sussexes as part of their £80 million deal with Netflix. It sees Harry follow a group of service members on their road to competing in the Invictus Games, a paralympic-style sporting event for sick and injured armed forces personnel set up by the Duke of Sussex in 2014. Elsewhere during the show, Harry says: From my personal experience, my tour of Afghanistan in 2012, flying Apaches, somewhere after that there was an unravelling. 'And the trigger to me was returning to Afghanistan, but the stuff that was coming up was from the age of – from 1992 – from the age of 12. 'Losing my mum at such a young age, the trauma that I had I was never really aware of. It was never discussed, I never really talked about it, and I've suppressed it like most young){kind=link}
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Harry has appeared to take a new swipe at his family by claiming he didn’t have a support network when returning home from Afghanistan.
Speaking on his new ‘Heart of Invictus’ series on Netflix today, Harry said he wanted to cure the ‘stigma’ associated with mental illness, which he claims was a ‘dirty word’ when he first joined the military.
In the series, Harry said upon his return home from the war in 2008, the ‘biggest struggle for me was that no one around me really could help’, adding: ‘I didn’t have that support structure, that network or that expert advice to identify what was actually going on with me.’
He also told the show: ‘Unfortunately, like most of us, the first time you consider therapy is when you are lying on the floor in the foetal position probably wishing you had dealt with some of this stuff previously. And that’s what I really want to change.’