Former U.S. Senator Max Cleland recently appeared on NPR's Fresh Air to discuss his new memoir Heart of a Patriot. After 9/11, the loss of his Senate seat and the beginning of the Iraq War triggered a relapse of PTSD from his experience of losing three of his limbs as a soldier in Vietnam. Click here to listen to his conversation with Terry Gross in which he discusses coping with PTSD and depression, his experience at Walter Reed, and the political campaign tactics that questioned his patriotism and helped unseat him.
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