Speaking in his Netflix series Heart of Invictus, Prince Harry opened up about how he experienced an ‘unraveling’ after returning home from his tour of duty in Afghanistan.
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00:00 Prince Harry is sharing new details about his time in the military.
00:03 The Duke of Sussex got candid about his deployment in his docuseries that has many people talking.
00:12 Speaking at his Netflix series Heart of Invictus, Prince Harry opened up about how he experienced
00:16 an unraveling after returning home from his tour of duty in Afghanistan.
00:21 The Duke of Sussex also noted that this situation triggered the trauma of losing his mother,
00:25 Princess Diana.
00:26 Everyone's going to struggle at some point.
00:27 I hear demons saying, "You're not going to do this."
00:31 If your goal was to make your family happy, you've achieved it.
00:36 My dad just scored that.
00:37 The new series Heart of Invictus from Harry and Meghan follows service members from around
00:41 the globe "who have suffered life-changing injuries or illnesses as they prepare to compete
00:46 in the competition."
00:47 The couple's production company, Archwall Productions, announced the release back in
00:50 2021.
00:51 However, a lot of people are drawing their attention to some of the comments Harry made
00:54 in the series about his own trauma.
00:56 In the show, Harry states, "I can only speak for my personal experience.
01:01 My tour of Afghanistan in 2012 flying Apaches, somewhere after that there was an unraveling
01:06 and the trigger to me was actually returning from Afghanistan.
01:09 But the stuff that was coming up was from 1997, from the age of 12, losing my mom at
01:14 such a young age.
01:15 The trauma that I had, I was never really aware of.
01:18 It was never discussed."
01:19 Harry went on to mention that he really didn't talk about it and also "suppressed it like
01:24 most youngsters would have done."
01:25 Harry went on to mention that he did not know a lot of what to do or how to handle the feelings
01:29 later on in life and started to feel numb at times.
01:32 Harry mentioned, "I didn't have that support structure, that network, that expert advice
01:36 to identify what was actually going on with me.
01:39 Unfortunately, like most of us, the first time you really consider therapy is when you're
01:42 lying on the floor in the fetal position, probably wishing you had dealt with some of
01:46 this stuff previously, and that's what I really want to change."
01:49 Now, the prince served in the military for roughly 10 years and undertook a total of
01:53 two tours in Afghanistan.
01:55 Harry first served in Helmand Province in 2007 and 2008, but his tour was cut short
01:59 after one media outlet broke a news embargo and revealed his presence in the war zone.
02:04 He later returned for a second tour in 2012.
02:07 Harry mentioned that he was on board an air hospital in a plane where some of the most
02:10 indescribable sights took place.
02:13 He said he saw "only what people had talked about."
02:15 The Duke of Sussex stated in the series, "That was the real trigger, from now seeing the
02:20 real cost of the war.
02:21 Not just those individuals, but also their families and what they would mean and how
02:25 their lives would literally change forever."
02:26 Harry mentioned that the flight also helped him realize that he too needed help.
02:30 Harry has been open about his mental health over the years and wrote about more of his
02:33 experiences in his 2023 memoir, "Spare."
02:35 For more on this, we'll keep you updated @WHATSTRENDING.
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