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all about the royals this morning it's um it sort of catches your breath you have to catch your breath this morning i think there is so much um of course yesterday uh there was the story about what happened with the martin bashir interview and princess downer but and of course prince william has given this quite extraordinary envision um statement about the indescribable sadness um that he remembers that cause i mean i don't think you correct me if you're wrong but i don't think i've seen him be so explicit uh so critical and not to comment in a that was a long time ago away but to really make sense of an active pain we can have a little look at it i mean it is sort of heartbreaking talks as well and then prince harry in this other extraordinary event which the front pages are full of prince william's statement and you can see why because it has extraordinary consequences i think for the royal family consequences for the bbc secretary has said there will have to be an overhaul of how the bbc is is managed and how supervision is you know carried out over interviews like this so that's making the front page but what happened since they went to press overnight is prince harry has been speaking with oprah winfrey on uh the the bit of me you can't see the me you can't see i remember when they went over there and it was how on earth are they going to turn their money what they're going to do well in fact it was they wanted to do meaningful work that would add to people's well-being um and this apple tv series is their first big moment i think of course we had the oprah winfrey interview and as some of the reviewers this morning are saying who have seen this it came out overnight there's five hours of this program 40 minutes of which are dedicated to harry's that's right isn't it richard there are other people in it and it's five episodes so it's it's full of showbiz luminaries and and sporting figures as well you know something for everyone basically as well as you know individuals like our good selves you know lady gaga or ordinary people ordinary people yeah and i think that's sorry sorry which is the key thing so it's it's about shaping a global conversation about mental health obviously because as we know this is a massive problem and the reach will be enormous clearly the focus will be on the stars and clearly prince harry but it's a billion screens that this will reach when you count in all the platforms obviously it drops on on apple plus today it's five episodes as you say rambi prince harry and what is really extraordinary about it uh obviously the we think we've heard it all day we think we've heard so much from them during the oprah winfrey interview with megan but this goes almost even further um and it does go fast and it and it shows him actually having some therapy cake that you know a little bit about which i've not heard and dr amir's here yeah i mean it's called it isn't it drama it's called eye movement uh desensitization and reprocessing which is a big mouthful usually just called dm look here's the clip of him having it and this is him having it and i've actually had a little bit of this it's it's it's not a million miles away from things like you know um cognitive behavioral therapy and processes like that less to do with therapy where you sort of talk about your childhood it's more functional and practical isn't it can you just explain what he's doing there that's tapping and hugging yeah so this um therapy emdr people generally when they've had traumatic life experiences have a tendency to bury it away in their in their minds and their brains and it stops them from healing and they often then get things like post-traumatic stress disorder and what this therapy aims to do is unlock some of that so what we've seen harry doing there is using external stimulus tapping on his on his shoulder here but what the therapist will do is ask the patient or client to focus on a particular part of a traumatic memory and while they're doing that they will ask them to either move uh their eyes very quickly follow their hands or use external stimulus like tapping which we saw harry doing there and the idea is that external stimulus stimulates the brain to process that memory uh a bit like what we replace it and replace the different forms replace the emotions associated with it so prior it could be it could be associated with horror or depression or anxiety but then there's a quote here that i think leads exactly to this he says history was repeating itself my mother was chased to her death while she was in a relationship with someone that wasn't white it's incredibly triggering to potentially lose another woman in my life and of course we heard in the oprah interview about megan's suicidal thoughts there is i mean that's from the oprah interview isn't it let's just listen we listen to some of this i think it's a good idea yeah yeah i mean it it it's it's devastating to hear about him and and and when you talk about the trauma and that therapy he and william actually in his comments both talk about their memory of her death and leading up to her death um talking about prince harry talks about how he can remember her crying with the seatbelt on the car as she's chased by people i mean all of this and we have in recent weeks haven't we we've talked about william's relationship with the media prince harry's relationship with the media but you can really see from both these comments that came out yesterday and overnight how that's gone into their minds and into their psyche in a way that maybe we don't fully understand no i don't think we we will be able to understand it they've both been through incredibly traumatic experiences yeah and people have been critical but there's no good time to talk about mental health so so you've got to talk about it and i think we've got to applaud harry for talking about his mental health it's not about the timing it's the fact that he's encouraging other people to do the same as well and that's really really important and they've two two of them have been through similar experiences but are managing it in their own different ways neither is right or wrong and it's about how they each manage it and the important thing is that they get the support they need and he talks about it um about when in sort of in his late 20s he really felt that everything was spiraling out of control this is what he had to say during this apple series you know i feel completely transfixed by it i just i find it so drawing in and what i find fascinating isn't it interesting you know it's now out on apple the whole thing all five hours are out aren't they now it's just that even though it's oprah and harry and we've seen them together doing an interview the interview which was obviously extraordinary you're talking about the one with yeah the one with the one with megan felt you know it was extraordinary but it was quite not so busy but there wasn't stagey it was stagey there was lovely you know there was all there was a lot of still to come yeah absolutely yeah this feels a lot more intimate it feels well also i think they're given a chance uh in this because of the time scale because it's five episodes he is given a chance to speak more extensively isn't he alongside as you say other stars and ordinary people and it absolutely is absolutely you know part of what you can tell he was arguing all along he was trying to do and maybe some of those particularly explosive comments like the comments about racism within the royal family almost needed to get out of the way so that people could hear some of his direct comments about his own mental health but he is also talks again about uh prince charles yes doesn't he very specifically about prince charles i think we can see this because it's it's a little bit of what we've heard before but set into more content i'm not sure that that's what prince charles would have been trying to do in those comments when he said i had to put up with it it might be an indication that he didn't know how to manage his situation any better and how to pass it on but prince harry is sort of drawing a line and saying stop i want to make changes i'm not sure 100 how to yet but i want to and i think prince charles is a victim to mental health in his own way as well even though he may not talk about it yeah but i think what harry's saying there is he went to someone for help and he didn't feel like he got the help he needed and it's so so important no matter who people turn to that that person listens and really listens and tries to help them or point them in the right direction uh for help and those earlier he is doing a huge service isn't he sean and i know you you spoke a lot about this whatever people might think about him and his departure from the country and the decisions he's taken the sort of performance elements of sharing your inner thoughts for entertainment essentially that's well that side of it too but also the decisions he's made and what he's done and his views on how you know how he's been triggered and witnessed the way megan's been treated um he believes because of the color of her skin whatever you think about that he is really changing things by having this conversation so publicly yeah mental health talking about mental illness there is still a massive stigma there is a pressure for people not to talk about it to hide it i mean that's what we felt in our family when our son was ill with ocd we didn't want to talk about it and it i mean you know i you know i talk about anything i chat i'm really confident but i didn't want to talk about a mental health situation in our family so hearing someone like harry ultimately you know what whatever you say about him he's a person who has feelings and what really strikes me about this when you read and you hear those clips and you read what he said those early years are so formative and when things go wrong it affects you so it affected him in his 20s and only now is he coming to terms with it there'll be people who are watching that and saying oh therapy you know whatever but it is important i think it really is important to talk about these things whether it's therapy or whether it's just sharing with someone else those things are crucial and he does say doesn't he there's so much of his mum in him possibly more than his dad he is so much like someone who says that honesty talks specifically about her honesty and her desire transparency with that and also i think since when you talk about you know prince harry moving towards drawing a line under it now and to prevent history repeating itself which you know many people feel that they're doomed to repeat with the patents that persist is watching prince william's statement which of course rubs alongside the prince harry's documentary today the timing is explosive he's far from drawing a line i mean the the rage there is simmering i mean it's absolutely palpable i mean when he says in that statement that he can draw a line between the decision and the influence wrongly now with false statements that were presented to do that interview and the position she ended up in at her death feeling paranoid and isolated and alone when he says that it is devastating isn't it well that document the you know the initial interview with martin bashir for all of us who are old enough to remember you know watching it as it went out in real time it changed the course of history yes although it's interesting because he now does say that should never be aired again william says this is not legitimate and it should never be again i mean it is there's so much to talk about this morning just to let you know that the prince harry um series uh the mirror you can't see is now on apple tv plus is that how we feel can i just say this and you can get all five episodes yeah you can see it all in context actually see the whole thing yeah i just want to say you know it's really important to talk about it and we say that all the time get the help you need but there's there's a delay between talking about it and getting that help if i see patients who talk about mental health with me i will help manage them as best as i can but if i need to refer them for therapy well who's going to be who can get that eat what is it called i it's mummy emdr yeah yeah i mean months on the nhs it is it is but it will be you'll have to go through several people to get it jump through several hoops and that is the the problem with mental health management within the nhs i've got to be honest you know my patients are waiting months to see something and especially as we come towards hopefully what is the end of a dreadful you know difficult time for people feeling isolated mental health you know problems that are mounting up dr hillary was saying you know and the doctor's saying the problem with gp's appointments is there are so many people with things that have been stored up and a lot of them are mental health issues there just isn't enough help available on to just absolutely we do have it may not be enough but it may be a start for you we do have more information advice on how to look after your mental well-being uh you can go to itv dot com forward slash britain get talking you

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Published: Fri May 21 2021