Prince Harry Says He Slipped Into Depression After Leaving the UK: "I Couldn't Function Without Adrenaline"

Prince Harry is opening up about one of the hardest stretches of his life. In a new MasterClass session called“Redefining Grief: Building Resilience Through Loss,”Harry revealed that after moving to Canada with Meghan Markle and baby Archie in 2019, he experienced an adrenaline crash that turned into roughly two weeks of depression.“I felt like I couldn’t function without adrenaline,”he said.“It was numbness, emotional shutdown.”

The revelations didn’t stop there. Harry described panic attacks that hit while he was putting on a dress shirt for royal duties, a suffocating feeling he now links to the pressure of life as a working royal. His biggest fear back then? Sweating through his clothes and looking disheveled in public. He also reflected on how enlisting in the military at twenty served as a distraction from grieving Princess Diana, and how his trauma was tied to stored-up experiences rather than his Afghanistan tour.

The timing is notable: Harry and Meghan moved back to the UK in August to be closer to King Charles III, making this a fresh chapter for the family. But the core of Harry’s message is about grief and burnout, something plenty of us deal with in our own lives. So we want to hear from you: what’s helped you get through your own adrenaline crash moments? Tell us in the comments.