The Duchess of Sussex’s modern podcast began with a set off warning, encouraging listeners to ‘tune out’ if need be, due to ‘sensitive content’.
Megan Markle has looked again on the “worst point” of her struggles with mental health, sharing that Prince Harry referred her to a clinical expert when she used to be in a “dire state”.
The intimate perception came as the Duchess of Sussex used to be criticised for singling out ancient episodes of How I Met Your Mother and Scrubs for the way they depicted mental health.
In the modern episode of Meghan’s Archetypes podcast, the duchess shared with Bollywood megastar Deepika Padukone the “dire state” in which she had before found herself.
The podcast began with a set off warning, encouraging listeners to “tune out” if want be, due to “sensitive content”.
“My husband had found a referral for me to call,” Meghan began.
“And I called this woman, and she didn’t even recognize I was once calling her … and she was checking out at the grocery store.



“I could hear the little beep, beep … She could hear the dire country that I was once in.
“But I assume it’s for all of us to be virtually honest about what it is that you need, and to now not be afraid, and make peace with that, to ask for it.”
The duchess then referred to as out the stereotype of women being labelled as “crazy”, citing “prevalent” examples in popular culture.
“Raise your hand if you’ve ever been called loopy or hysterical - or what about nuts? Insane out of your mind, completely irrational, okay? You get the point,” the mother-of-two said.
“Now, if we have been all in the identical room and may want to see each other, I assume it would be quite effortless to see.
“Just how many of us have our fingers up? By the way, me too.
“And it’s no wonder, when you consider just how common these labels are in our culture.”
Several audio clips from special sitcoms and cultural moments have been played, the most excellent being from an episode of How I Met Your Mother.
The character of Barney Stinson was once heard saying: “If she’s this crazy, she has to be this hot,” referring to a “crazy/hot scale” he invented in the series.



‘Crazy’ labels
Another reference used to be an episode of Scrubs, in which the character Elliot Reid says: ”I can’t take it, Carla! I cannot disguise the loopy a minute longer! I’m just this large mountain of coocoo about to erupt and spew molten crazy, all over him and he’s gonna die like this.”
The duchess goes on to call out the phrase “hysterical”, which she realized comes from the “Greek phrase for womb”.
“Plato himself was once truly amongst the Greek philosophers, who believed that the womb would journey around the body adding pressure to other organs, which would then lead to erratic and unreliable behaviour,” she said.
“Calling any one loopy or hysterical completely dismisses their experience and minimises what they’re feeling.”
Some listeners took offence to Meghan’s pop lifestyle swipe, with one calling her “out of her depth”.
“So essentially Meghan is offended by way of comedy. Austin Powers, How I Met Your Mother and Scrubs. Let’s just cancel the 90s and early 2000s,” one remark said.
Another said: “Meghan takes aim at a skit in a 2007 episode of How I Met Your Mother in her modern podcast. Millions had been spent on Archetypes to have Meghan deliver smug commentary about a 15 YEAR OLD scene from a sitcom.”
However, others seemed to revel in the new episode, with one tweeting: “Another female-empowering conversation and well worth a listen.”

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