Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD – The Brutally Honest New York Times Bestseller About Depression, Suicidal Crisis, and Choosing Healing

by Jason Kander

This failure to flip the switch back to normal, to deprogram military thinking that is useful during service but potentially harmful afterward, is the reason why I and so many others kept thinking that we couldn’t possibly have “earned” our PTSD and that getting treatment for it was like “stealing valor.”