Following Prince Harry’s startling admission regarding his mental health on Dax Shepard’s podcast last week, several people have come forward to share their own take on his interview.
Though many Brits have applauded the Prince for his honesty, others have felt triggered by his openness and the jabs made towards his dad, Prince Charles.
While appearing on Tuesday’s episode of Good Morning Britain with hosts Susanna Reid, Adil Ray and journalist Andrew Pierce, Dr Hilary Jones claimed Prince Harry had become “focused on his victimhood”.
Discussing the Prince, journalist Andrew said: “It’s essentially a session with a psychiatrist, and it’s playing out on TV which means all his family get sucked into it, and it’s meant to be private.”
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But Dr Hilary interrupted him and commented on NHS psychiatrist Dr Max Pemberton’s views, as he recently claimed Prince Harry was showing signs of having too much therapy.
Making reference to Dr Max Pemberton, Dr Hilary said: “Actually, it rang bells with me.
“Because if you become totally focused on your own victimhood you never escape from it, and I think there is a risk of that perhaps being played out here.”
Presenter Susanna replied: “It would be a terrible irony if in destigmatising therapy he actually puts people off therapy. Because it’s really important that people do get the support that they need.”
But presenter Adil Ray suggested viewers should listen to the podcast themselves first before they made their mind up and judged him on his mental health.
Adil said: “I urge people to go and listen to the podcast as I think you will come away thinking he destigmatises it and it shows mental health is something we all have.”
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Last week, Harry spoke candidly about his father and grandmother, the Queen, and said he “suffered” due to his upbringing as his father treated him “the way he was treated”.
Harry explained: “I verbalise it, which is, isn’t life about breaking the cycle?’
“There’s no blame, I don’t think we should be pointing the finger or blaming anybody.
“But certainly when it comes to parenting, if I have experienced some form of pain or suffering because of the pain or suffering perhaps my father or my parents suffered, I’m gonna make sure that I break that cycle so that I don’t pass it on, basically.”
He continued: “There is a lot of genetic pain and suffering that gets passed on anyway. As parents we should be doing the most that we can to say, ‘You know what, that happened to me, I’m gonna make sure that’s not going to happen to you’.”
Harry will be starring alongside Oprah Winfrey in a docuseries called The Me You Can’t See on Apple TV.
The trailer for the new programme was released this week and will explore mental health and Harry’s personal experience with it.
GMB airs on weekdays at 6am on ITV.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
