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The Duke of Cambridge will be starring in his own documentary airing tonight at 8pm on BBC called ‘Football, Prince William and Our Mental Health’ where he will be using the sport to help famous faces open up about their own struggles. William has been focusing on helping the nation’s mental health for several years now. He, along with his wife Kate Middleton and Prince Harry, worked on the Heads Together campaign back in 2016. The three of them wanted to break down the barriers which prevent people from discussing how they’re truly feeling.

They were heavily praised for disrupting the aloofness typically associated with the Royal Family, especially as they all chose to reveal their own difficulties with their mental health.

William then opened up again when he spoke at the ‘This Can Happen’ conference at London’s O2 in 2018, which focuses on mental health issues within the workplace.

Here, he revealed that during his work with the East Anglia Air Ambulance between 2015 and 2017, he had endured particular hardships.

He said: “Talking was really important, but even that wasn’t quite enough for one particular incident for me.

“I worked several times on very traumatic jobs involving children, and after I had my own children I think the relation between the job and the personal life was what really took me over the edge, and I started feeling things that I have never felt before, and I got very sad and very down about this particular family.”

While further details of these incidents were not revealed, the Duke of Cambridge added that talking to colleagues helped him “to come to terms with the enormous sadness” of such tragedies.

He also commented that “things can snowball and get quite bad” if there is not enough workplace support.

The royal continued: “I was lucky enough that I identified that something was going on and I spoke to a lot of people about it.

“And that talking and that dealing with it, and knowing also that my colleagues I worked with had been in the medical profession for 30 odd years in some cases, they were all also feeling from this particular job very troubled.”

Yet, William explained that this trauma still led him to “disconnect” from his work.

The royal revealed: “I started to realise I had to self-analyse a bit.

“I was seeing a lot of death and a lot of injury, a lot of traumatic injury and families being destroyed every single day I was at work.”

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He said that this negative stance started to impact his whole life, explaining: “You have to distance yourself from the job a little bit, and go, ‘OK this happens in the job environment but the whole world isn’t this gloomy and really sad’.”

The Duke of Cambridge added that he sometimes worries about his own staff who can work “silly hours”.

He explained: “There’s still a stigma about mental health.

“We are chipping away at it but that wall needs to be smashed down.”

His brother Harry has also been frank with his mental health issues over the years, and explained that he even suffered from panic and rage at times.

He believed it can be traced back to the early death of his mother Princess Diana, back in 1997, and later claimed he received professional help after William encouraged him to do so.

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