Jason Kander was a rising star in the Democratic Party. Then he stepped away to focus on treating his PTSD. Here’s his advice for Fetterman.
Yeah, the New York Times reported that your wife knew about this, and so she always made sure that she walked into the house ahead of your son because she worried … she didn’t want him to find you.This is when Kander realized that he simply needed to drop out of politics altogether. He wrote a public letter explaining why,on myself and run a campaign the way I want to at the same time, so I’m choosing to work on my depression.
A lot of people focus on the openness and vulnerability of the public letter you wrote announcing you were dropping out. And it is remarkably open and vulnerable and honest about the fact that you couldn’t keep running from your symptoms. But there’s also been reporting that after you sent the letter out, you basically looked at your campaign manager and said, “It sucks to feel so weak.”I don’t see it that way anymore, but at that moment, I just felt really defeated.
Furthermore, I assumed—because at the time there was no precedent for this sort of thing—that I wasn’t just giving up the chance to be mayor. I figured that this was the end of me as a political figure of any kind. And frankly, I was like,So yeah, I was trading in the one thing that was going really well—my career—for a leap of faith that I could get better. But I also was at the point where I didn’t really see an option.
The good thing is at least most of the clinicians are such professionals that when I still go occasionally to sit down with my therapist at the V.A., it’s very rare that somebody stops me who works there and is like, “Can I get a selfie?” That doesn’t really happen. They’re professionals about it. But what is the more interesting or the more difficult challenge is once you’ve had treatment, once you’ve started to get better, the rest of the world sees you through the last thing they knew.Right.
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