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Prince Harry is still unpacking all his trauma and allowing us all to come along for the journey.

As if a two-hour interview with Oprah Winfrey, contributions to Oprah’s series on mental health, a six-hour Netflix documentary series, and a 400-plus-page autobiography isn’t enough to do himself and his past justice.

Sure, losing his mother at an early age, shooting to kill while serving in Afghanistan, and being hounded by the press his entire life has left him with some serious mental health issues.

Understandably, the ex-royal has major beef with his family, mostly his father King Charles, the woman who replaced his mom Queen Consort Camilla, and his big bro Prince William.

So then I suppose bringing the renowned Canadian doctor and author Gabor Maté into the picture to further unpack all his trauma is the next best bet.

According to the website for his memoir Spare, the “intimate conversation” will focus on “living with loss and the importance of personal healing”.

The virtual event will launch this Saturday and cost audience members $33,09 to watch, around R600.

To make up for the price, those watching will have an opportunity to submit questions beforehand and will receive a copy of Spare, which sells for $25 (R450) – not a bad deal, then.

You can also add on Maté’s book The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture for an additional fee.

I have it and by golly, it is revelatory and telling of the times, while also calling the current status quo into deep question.

Maté is a bit unconventional, but that is very much the point, he argues, in a world where trauma, mental health issues, diseases and addictions, as a result, are raging around us without the current healthcare system able to do much about it.

As for Harry, he clearly has more to unload, notes Intelligencer:

…He told The Telegraph that the original draft of Spare was 800 pages. “It could have been two books, put it that way. And the hard bit was taking things out,” he said.

And he’s making us pay, because, well, frankly, he needs the money:

In Spare, after “Pa” cuts him off financially in his mid-30s, the prince describes how a lifetime of compulsory royal service has left him “otherwise unemployable.”

“I’d never asked to be financially dependent on Pa. I’d been forced into this surreal state, this unending Truman Show,” he writes. “Sponge, the papers called me. But there’s a big difference between being a sponge and being prohibited from learning independence. After decades of being rigorously and systematically infantilized, I was now abruptly abandoned, and mocked for being immature?”

We all have our problems.

Well, you can fork out the R600 for the livestream, or you can save it for the inevitable sequel to Spare.

[source:intelligencer]