U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee is speaking publicly for the first time about his post-traumatic stress after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and how his weekly therapy sessions have helped him.
In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC Nightly News, Kildee said when he went home to Michigan following the insurrection, he was anxious, irritable and felt a tightness in his chest that affected his breathing. I thought it was fine. It was after I got home, when I started looking at some of the video from the event I had thought it was a few dozen people. It was hundreds and hundreds of violent people, and that triggered an emotional, physical reaction.