Prince Harry Says Return Home After Serving In Afghanistan Triggered ‘Trauma’ Of Losing His Mom
etcanada.comPrince Harry is opening up about the difficulties of coming home. In Netflix’s new documentary series “Heart of Invictus”, the Duke of Sussex shares how his return from military service in Afghanistan triggered “trauma” related to his mom’s death. READ MORE: Prince Harry To Return To England Ahead Of One-Year Anniversary Of Queen Elizabeth II’s Death “From my personal experience, my tour of Afghanistan in 2012, flying Apaches, somewhere after that there was an unravelling,” he recalls in the series’ second episode. “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.” Princess Diana was killed in a car accident in Paris in 1997.
He continues, “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 suppressed it like most youngsters would have done.” Harry goes on to talk about what that unravelling felt like, and how it helped him realize he needed to seek help. “But when it all came fizzing out I was bouncing off the walls.
Like what is going on here, I’m now feeling everything as opposed to being numb,” he says. “The biggest struggle for me was no one around me really could help.
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