Prince Harry speaks out.

Ahh thank you Iam64, that is seriously a relief,? I get very saddened when people seem only to focus on the negative & cannot give credit where credit is due .

I do sometimes wonder if my Pollyanna tendencies come to the fore in this kind of debate. The older I get, the more I accept that all of us are carrying some kind of "stuff", coping with all kinds of loss, sadness, even anxiety, depression and other ills but somehow, presenting an ok face to the world. As daphned said earlier, H (and W and K) had to fly round the world as part of their work in the Royal Family and they got on with it. I'm sure many of us have somehow got on with caring or work responsibilities when in truth, we wanted to curl up in a ball and avoid them all.
Just because Harry was born into wealth and privilege, doesn't exclude him from any of that. Of course, he could buy Therapy. He doesn't come from a family that takes to Therapy easily, it seems to me. He grew up in the shadow of an acrimonious divorce that the whole world knew about, as it knew about allegations his father, isn't in fact his father. He lost his mother at an age that research confirms is especially lethal on the later depression front. Give him and everyone else struggling with m.h./addiction etc difficulties a break. We're all human. It could be one of use tomorrow, or one of our loved ones. I think that's the point he and K and W are trying to make.

I call that face my Eleanor Rigby face.

"Eleanor Rigby, picks up the rice
In the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face
That she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for"

Can you imagine what his DGF would have to say about therapy?

He'd probably blame Harry's mother's bad genes for the his being bonkers.

Come to think of it, DGF's mother was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, so probably has some knowledge and experience of mental illness.

He did have a pretty tough life himself as a child.

so therefore you would think he would have some sympathy and understanding

Except the old fart probably has his own "black dog" to deal with and is too steeped in his sense of importance /can't let the firm down attitude to be open about it or empathise with others.

So now you know how his grandparents have been no help, have no understanding of him?

This has become Saint Diana and the wicked windsors again, no different,

How unkind you are about his grandfather, Harry has been spoilt and pampered , his grandfather didn't have parents or a country.

Well, that's telling him!

I was actually being surprisingly empathetic to Philip I do think he is probably not a person I would warm to but can see his priveledged, but not without emotional stress, life would make it more difficult to articulate any mental illness concerns. Possibly why he appears uso 'no nonsense' about others.

Methinks the prince protests too much etc..

For any child to lose both parents, spend their school years in boarding schools and school holidays in other people's homes, cut off from siblings, to be compared with a child who had a loving father, a very large , close extended family, a home , in fact all his grandfather didn't have ,

Yet Harry gets the sympathy and his grandfather the critcism

B- H--l Do we now have the sympathy police where one is only allowed to express sympathy to some people but not others! what is wrong with you people . We are all humans ??? well supposedly & all have our crosses to bear no one can ever know what someone else goes through & we have no right to judge others once again 'walk a mile in my shoes' & particularly why criticise anyone who can use his position to possibly help others to speak out , get over your self righteous selves ?

So those who have different opinions to you norose are self righteous and need to get over themselves ?

Yes indeed you have a point we could all be deemed to be being 'self righteous 'but that is not the same as judging people to be more or less worthy of empathy or admiration or what ever label just because of their status or wealth !!! Or lack of !!

Then you need to get over yourself norose because you are judging posters , you haven't the foggiest of the experiences of those you judge

Why is it acceptable to critcise Phillip but not Harry?

I have wondered often what 'get over yourself' means.

Apparently it is in the Urban Dictionary [que?] and is a: 'Patronising phrase used to tell someone that you believe they hold too high an opinion of themselves, or are behaving in a conceited or pompous manner.'

So is patronising.
And quite meaningless in this context.

I think it a deeply offensive comment,

Anniebach. Possibly because of my wording you don't seem to have understood the point I was trying to make, we all express ourselves differently & therefore it is sometimes open to interpretation . I was just trying to point out that being 'privaliged ' does not mean you don't suffer the same pain as someone who is not & that it seems unfair to diss someone from speaking out about grief just because they are better of financially , my understanding of pain & grief is that no amount of wealth can cure it .

Get over yourself - is usually said when one person things they have better in sight than someone else i.e. They are wealthy so they don't suffer the same . A very unfair assumption imo

diss?

what is diss?

Sorry I was being lazy , disrespecting

Diss am a mean way to speak ob your brudders an sisters, Jalima, when you tinks dey is STOOPID and talkin' garbidge!

Well done all the runners supporting ' HEADS TOGETHER ' yesterday at the London Marathon

Well done to William, Kate and Harry for engaging in the London Marathon to support ' HEADS TOGETHER '.

Well done to ALL those who took part for their chosen charities too.

Great ? perspective POGS, agree well done to all doing something positive X