Kate’s truth bomb about therapy and why I know she is right
After withstanding three weeks of harry napalming the royal family with his ‘ truth bombs’, the Princess of Wales — whether unwittingly or not — dropped a little bomb of her own this week.
On a visit with Prince William to the Open Door mental health charity in Liverpool — their first public engagement since the publication of spare — she said, simply: ‘talking therapies don’t work for some people, they’re not for everybody.’
The comment raised eyebrows in the light of harry’s apparent obsession with therapy. not least because of his revelation that, after William apparently broke his brother’s necklace and knocked him to the floor in a fight about Meghan, harry immediately called his therapist to talk about it.
Whether Kate dropped her bomb unwittingly or not, she’s absolutely right. While talking therapies certainly work for some, they don’t always solve the problem. And I should know. During low points in my life I’ve tried several of them; some worked, most didn’t.
Talking didn’t heal my marriage nor bring my dead brother back.
And from what I have seen of harry in interviews and in his book, I’d say they haven’t worked for the anguished, vengeful Prince. the vitriol, the anger, the bitterness he’s full of — they’re not what you find in a person at ease with themselves. If he’s the poster boy for ‘talking therapy’ then God help those of us who seek help that way.
What I see is a deeply vindictive man, a narcissist, obsessed with his own feelings to the exclusion of others, revelling in an unrealistically high sense of his own importance and wallowing in eternal victimhood. you can see in his distrustful eyes that there has been no healing.
Why otherwise would the Prince we once loved utter such bile against so many of those who should be close to him? his father, brother, Kate, Camilla — all villains. he’s convinced he and Megs are the blameless victims.
Any professional will tell you having a therapist on speed dial is not how therapy should work. healing will only come to harry if he starts genuinely talking to his family. that truly would be a talking therapy worth having.