One-time rising star Jason Kander won his battle with PTSD, but he's in no rush to return to politics
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Jason Kander says if his new book “INVISIBLE STORM: A Soldier’s Memoir of Politics and PTSD” was around a 15 years ago, he would have quickly sought treatment after his military service
"There really are very few public examples out there of people who have had trauma, gotten that trauma treated, gone to therapy and gotten help, and then moved into a post-traumatic growth phase of their life," Kander noted in an interview with Fox News ahead of the public release of his book on Tuesday.
His struggles were kept hidden as his political career in Missouri blossomed. He won election and re-election as a state representative before winning statewide office as Secretary of State. And Kander, a Democrat, came close to upsetting GOP incumbent Sen. Roy Blunt in 2016 in a state that was increasingly turning a darker shade of red.