On the occasion of World Mental Healthy day, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were invited to the podcast Teenage Therapy. By podcastaflevering About mental well-being and online abuse, among other things, resulted in a frank conversation.
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Five stressed, sleep-deprived, yet energetic teens talk about the problems teens have. There goes the podcast Teenage Therapy about. This week, the teens had special guests: the British Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duke and Duchess of the Sussex.
Meghan Markle warned in the podcast about the dangers of the corona virus. The impact of a pandemic, she says, is that people are pushed more towards the internet. ‘And there is a lot of vulnerability there. It’s a good way to connect with people, but it’s also very often a place where people lose connection with each other. ‘
No taboo
Mental problems shouldn’t be a taboo, Markle said. ‘I was told that in 2019 I was the most trolled person in the world. And eight months of that year, I wasn’t even visible because I was on maternity leave or taking care of the baby. What they managed to invent and fabricate from lies in that period, you can hardly survive. You can’t imagine how it makes you feel. ‘
According to the duchess, it doesn’t matter whether you are 15 or 25 years old. ‘If people say things about you that are not true, it is enormously harmful to your mental well-being. We all know what it feels like to be hurt and it is very important to talk about it. ‘
Harry added that people are wrong when they think that only a small group of people have mental difficulties. “I think 90 percent of people are affected in some way,” he said. ‘With the corona virus that may have risen to 99 percent.’
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