Prince William has opened up about his struggles with his mental health in a remarkably candid new documentary for the BBC.
The future king of England, who is the founder of initiative Heads Together, collaborated with the UK’s Football Association and BBC One for Football, Prince William and Our Mental Health which aimed to raise awareness about mental health and to encourage football supporters to open up about their struggles.
The program, which aired Thursday night in the UK, saw Prince William meet with various figures in the football world to discuss men’s mental health in the context of the sport.
Speaking about his own struggles, the Duke of Cambridge revealed the trick he adopted to help him manage the anxiety he feels ahead of public speaking – allowing his poor eyesight to go unchecked.
“Because I couldn’t see everyone’s eyes, you didn’t feel like the whole weight of the room is watching you,” he explained.
“You’re like, ‘This has to go right. I don’t want to mess this up’. There’s a lot of people watching and you can see certain people. My eyesight started to sort of tail off a little bit as I got older, and I didn’t used to wear contacts when I was working, so actually when I gave speeches I couldn’t see anyone’s face.
“It helps because it’s just a bit of a blur of faces, and because you can’t see anyone looking at you. I could see enough to read the paper and stuff like that, but I couldn’t actually see the whole room.
“And actually that really helped with my anxiety.”
Elsewhere in the program, William explained that he was aiming to change the way men feel about opening up to their loved ones.
“A lot of families sit around and watch TV, on their iPads, they talk about, you know, ‘how was your day, how was work?’” he said.
“But actually, (we should) stop and say, ‘today was a really bad day, I didn’t like today’.
“Life is very difficult, we’ve all got to juggle a lot of things, from family pressures, work pressures, home pressures, relationship pressures – whatever it might be.
“If we can deal with these things early in the process, we stand a better chance of fixing it and allowing life to continue in an orderly fashion rather than some of those bits falling by the wayside. and life then starts to spiral out of control.”
William also opened up about his own journey into fatherhood, admitting having children was one of his life’s “scariest” moments because it dredged up the grief of losing his mother, Princess Diana, when he was only 15.
William, now 37, described how Diana’s death in a 1997 car crash in Paris was “traumatic” for him and how being a father had sometimes been “overwhelming” as the memories came flooding back.
“Having children is the biggest life-changing moment, it really is,” he said “I think when you’ve been through something traumatic in life … my mother dying when I was younger, the emotions come back, in leaps and bounds.”
William sees fatherhood as “a very different phase of life — there’s no one there to help you, and I definitely found it very, at times, overwhelming. Emotionally, things come out of the blue that you don’t ever expect or that maybe you think you’ve dealt with,” according to the Times.
He tells his three children — Prince George, 6; Princess Charlotte, 5; and 2-year-old Prince Louis — “constantly” about Diana.
“It’s important that they know who she was and that she existed,” he said.
If you are experiencing mental health issues or suicidal feelings contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or BeyondBlue 1300 224 636. If it is an emergency please call triple-0.
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