He says the book was an "act of service" to help others break the taboo about speaking about mental health problems.
Trigger warning: This article contains themes of mental health issues and trauma that some readers may find distressing
Prince Harry recently spoke to Dr. Gabor Maté, the author of The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture, a book about trauma and addiction. He spoke about his own trauma growing up without a mother and how he felt being part of the royal family. The father-of-two confessed that he "always felt slightly different" from his family and that his late mother felt the same. Speaking about the grief he said he even feared losing memories of his mother Diana when he started therapy, according to BBC. The 38-year-old described growing up "feeling slightly different to the rest of my family" and living in a disconnected "bubble", which therapy had helped him burst.
"Certainly throughout my life, throughout my younger years, I always felt slightly different to the rest of my family," he said according to PEOPLE. "I felt strange being in this container, and I know that my mum felt the same. It makes sense to me — it didn't make sense at the time — I felt as though my body was in there, but my head was out, but sometimes it was vice-versa. The times that I ventured towards being myself, being my authentic true self, whether it was through media or family or whatever it was, it was almost like, 'Don't be yourself, come back to what you're expected to be,' if that makes sense."
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