Shocking details about Prince Harry’s mental health issues

Prince Harry has had a difficult life and has experienced several ups and downs, especially after the death of his mother, Princess Diana.

Prince Harry ignored British royal protocol in a remarkable and blunt interview, detailing years of pain balancing his life and mental wellbeing, challenges he clearly links to his mother's early death—and revealing that he has needed counselling to come to grips with it.

In a widely shared and celebrated podcast interview with Telegraph columnist Bryony Gordon, he confessed to years of panic and rage, revealing that his life had been in “total chaos” for two years.

“I just couldn't put my finger on it,” she said “he said “I just didn't know what was wrong with me.”

The prince admitted that he has come “very close to total breakdown on numerous occasions when all sorts of grief and lies and misconceptions are coming to you from every angle.” The prince admitted that he had totally blocked his emotions for years, an ostrich approach that had serious psychological consequences.

According to Harry's biographer Angela Levin, the Duke of Sussex's personality has lost charisma, as shown by his interview with Oprah Winfrey.

Levin told Us Weekly, “I interviewed Harry for when I was writing his biography. I found him to be charismatic, sympathetic, have wonderful intuition, which he inherited from his mother [Princess Diana], and with a sort of mischievous glint in his eye. He was full of energy and fun and bounce and quite macho .”

During his interview with Winfrey, the biographer said, “The Harry I saw during the interview… was very traumatic in a way. He looked like a shell version of himself .”

Levin said, “I found him anxious, looking nervy, absolutely hating it. And I felt incredibly sad that this is what has happened to him .”

After Diana's passing, Harry “occasionally” had a “dark cloud” over him, according to the royal writer, but she believes it has gotten worse in recent years.

After holding off coping with his mother's death for years, Harry admitted three years ago that he went through two years of “total chaos” in his late twenties.

“It was twenty years of not thinking about it and then two years of total chaos,” he explained.

“My way of dealing with it was sticking my head in the sand, refusing ever to think about my mum because why would that help?

“I spent most of my life saying ‘I'm fine'… saying ‘fine' was so much better than having to go into the details.”

Harry's mother Princess Diana died in a traffic crash when he was 12 years old in 1997.