Jason Kander > Quotes

“PTSD is an injury. That’s all it is.”
― Jason Kander, Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD

“Reader, let’s talk about ambition. First of all, the word is almost always used against young people—especially women. No one calls Bernie Sanders ambitious, but the man ran for president twice. When he ran in the eighties, Joe Biden was condemned for his ambition; no one said that in 2020. All her life, people have flung this accusation at Hillary Clinton.”
― Jason Kander, Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD

“Thinking other people have it worst doesn't actually diminish your own trauma, it just diminishes your power to heal.”
― Jason Kander, Invisible Storm: A Soldier’s Memoir of Politics and PTSD

“One person's brain doesn't know what another person's brain has experienced. . . What happened to you is all that matters in [a conversation about trauma], and what happened to me is totally irrelevant.”
― Jason Kander, Invisible Storm: A Soldier’s Memoir of Politics and PTSD