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Talking About Afghanistan — You Are Not Alone

Sedona AZ – Current events in Afghanistan have left many in our community feeling understandably upset. The mental, physical and emotional wounds are deep. You may be wondering about the impact of your sacrifice and service, or the service of those who deployed there.

You are not alone. Remember that what is happening now does not minimize or negate the experiences of all who served there. Countless answered the call of duty and did what was asked of them. Service is never for naught. Think about the times when valor and courage changed lives for the better. Or, focus on the present and what feels meaningful to you in this moment.

If you’re feeling this way, it will take time to process your feelings. Talking can be very therapeutic, whether it’s to a local chaplain, psychologist or someone you served with in the military. Do what feels right for you. There is not one way to think or feel or act. The important thing is to take advantage of available mental health care resources.

Remember that this is one moment in time and regardless of what comes next, we will get through it together.

The following resources are available:

The Real Warriors Campaign aims to break down the stigma associated with mental health care and encourages service members to reach out for help when they need it. Find articles with support resources, video profiles with service member and veteran stories, and materials to download or order.

The Psychological Health Resource Center is available 24/7 for service members, veterans, and family members with questions about psychological health topics. Trained mental health consultants can help callers access mental health care and community support resources in their local area. Click on the link or call 1-866-966-1020 for assistance.

The inTransition Program is a free confidential program that provides specialized coaching and assistance for service members, National Guard members, reservists, veterans, and retirees who need access to mental health care when relocating to another assignment, returning from deployment, transitioning between active duty and reserve component, preparing to leave military service, or any other time they need a new mental health provider, or need a provider for the first time. Click on the link or call 1-800-424-7877.

The Military Crisis Line, text-messaging service, and online chat provide free VA support for all service members, including members of the National Guard and Reserve, and all veterans, even if they are not registered with VA or enrolled in VA health care. Click on the link to chat, call 1-800-273-8255 and press 1, or text 838255.

TRICARE offers mental health care to all its enrollees. Click on the link to find out how and to find other links to mental health providers through the TRICARE network.

Military Medical Treatment Facilities often provide mental health services, including integrated behavioral health clinics. Contact your primary care manager to see if this resource is available at your local MTF. If it is, you can schedule an appointment same day.

Military OneSource can provide access to confidential Military Family Life Counselors in your community. Click on the link or call 1-800-342-9647. Military OneSource also provides resources so you can manage stress and access benefits and tools that will help you stay strong in body and mind. This page provides access to self-care mobile applications developed within the Department of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and other partners. All mobile applications are free and for iOS and/or Android devices.

Visit these Health.mil and Tricare.mil Military Health System web pages for more information.

25 Comments

  1. Sedona Wings says:

    Don’t blame us we voted for Trump

  2. mshobert says:

    #SedonaWings – no wonder you remained anonymous. I wouldn’t ‘come out’ either – as a Trumper. #orangejesus

  3. Sedona Wings says:

    again you prove our points being in the 39% and dropping daily percent of Democrats polled continuing to approve the current policies because you can’t think and reason politically

  4. Sharyn says:

    Enjoy reading comments all of your posts here and all of the comments to everybody . You are numero uno Sedona Times Eye .

  5. Kevin Schmugge says:

    China, Russia, North Korea don’t honor surrender flags, their codes of conduct are to exterminate those they conquer. Learn history.

  6. TinKo Lupe Chicago says:

    SEDONA friendly community

  7. Vickory Vickory Talk says:

    Bungled withdrawal by Joe Biden and his military pals reflect a deep need for voting him out because he never should have been voted in. Only one worse would have been nightmare diva Clinton. Stop scraping the bottom of the rotten DC power barrel and start looking for real good people regardless of party. Sinema turned out to be an Arizona keeper by both parties but Gifford’s husband proved he’s not pro Arizona or the southwest or the west but pro east coast DC, a New Jersey power climber looking for a DC job opening shouldn’t get the right to give Arizonans the middle finger, give him an old western boot and send him back east next election and represent Jersey.

  8. Mike says:

    Imagine this.

    Kept on the down low is China takeover of Afghanistan which ultimately will enthrone Chinese power over Russia.

    China and Russia will bring Afghans under control, but with a billion Chinese to cull and Ughars to despose of, China will eventually and efficiently relocate and reeducate and cut out its rot.

    China will pretend Putin’s Russia and Supreme Ruler Iran matter to its five year game plan, while knowing the two culturally compliant to one man power nations will be eliminated quietly and efficiently by unattributed pandemic warfare and tightening of necessary for survival supply chains.

    America will do nothing to stop it.

    China will finish what it started in America, having allowed enough time for the masses to finish destroying its cultural fabric of independence and equality for all with a desire for uniform conformity and government control sown by CCP controlled Big Brother Hollywood, Academia, Energy, Medicine, Agriculture, Supply Chains, Social Media Platforms, Government, Military Industrial Complex, Banks, and Apathy.

    Fact or fiction is a choice.

  9. Freddy says:

    The earth moved. Heard Jake Tapper of progressive left squad said Biden screwed up on Afghanistan and said he’s no right to be vaccine surly with nation. Jakey, fact versus fiction is moral place to be when reporting, glad to see you saw the light.

  10. I.Q.F. says:

    A nuclear engineer for the U.S. Navy and his wife have been charged with trying to share some of the United States’ most closely held secrets on submarine technology with another country. If they’re guilty then maybe it should be a public execution to remind others what happens when you commit treason?

    Or the courts could offer options for having both eyes and both hands and both tongues removed under Sharia law? Think that’s harsh? Then you’re not up to date on the sharia laws you support here in the states.

  11. Phil, west Sedona says:

    Happy Columbus Day holiday.

    https://www.newsweek.com/mark-kelly-hunter-biden-chinese-communist-partys-influence-opinion-1536045

    Newsweek article: Stop disrespecting our nation. When an Arizona Senator Kelly rides around China on a motorcycle flying the Chinese flag, what does that say about the influence Chinese Communist Party that owns and runs China has on our Senate and our state and our nation? Vote him out. Find an AZ Democrat with guts to be a social moderate fiscal conservative pro America to represent AZ in the Senate. What has happened in Afghanistan shows what can happen here at home with poor American leadership. We deserve better than we have, we fought for better than we have.

  12. A Canadian says:

    “It is easy to criticize the past and the decisions made there. But it is a conceit of each and every generation that it alone is free from poor judgments, intellectual shortcomings and historical myopia.”

  13. Lake Mary says:

    The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center announced that Iranian hackers successfully targeted U.S. and Israeli defense technology companies.

    China has a supersonic missile that we knew nothing about? A space station we didn’t know about?

    The Russian China pact vows to use the China Belt Road through the weak China and Russian allied Balkan countries to control Europe and Scandinavia and their allies by 2025 – 2035?

    Wake up.

  14. Saul Arden says:

    Biden Treasury nominee Soule Omarova is or recently was as recently as 2019 a member of Marxist Facebook group. She graduated from Moscow University and wrote her thesis on why individual bank accounts for the people should be taken away.

    Whose behind the Biden “infrastructure” package that says any deposit or withdrawal over $600.00 should be reported to the IRS and investigated? Sinema and Manchin are right to say no that this rotten stinking bill that isn’t what it says it is.

    We just had the AC blower replaced on our system and it cost exactly $600 for its parts and labor and we need to be watched and reported?

    You want this Marxist EVERYONE BUT YOU DESERVES YOUR MONEY in control of your bank? You want to be reported to the IRS if you buy a Disneyland family package of tickets? Or spend $600 at a vacation VRBO while away for a week? Or send your student in college semester money? Or buy groceries for a work party or restaurant meals for a church fundraiser?

    The government can’t watch billions and trillions of deposits by the drug cartels but they can watch my air conditioner repair?

    You better be on the phone to Sinema and Kelly and OHallerhan and Kirkpatrick and others and telling them you expect Soule Omarova to go quietly back to Cornell University where she should be fired or be investigated for being a possible spy? Why else would she even wa t to be part of the government and control its banking system? And investigate who wants her there in that job because they may have the same stink too?

  15. Bob, west Sedona says:

    Incredible. Not on CNN or MSNBC. This government is corrupt beyond belief. Our kids better smarten up. We vets are being made laughingstock by them.

  16. Dale says:

    See call visit a nearest VA to learn what benefits and rights can have changed. Because God bless veterans, active military, border patrol, sheriffs, police each and every day. Pray for there safety and protection while there keeping us safe and protected . Stand with them .

  17. Garnet says:

    Why weren’t drones used to destroy abandoned equipment? Did we have a sales agreement that nobody told us about?

  18. Emilia G. Vega, NYC says:

    To every Democrat and Republican who didn’t mourn our American 13 and bemoan the loss of billions of dollars of American military equipment that was easily removed, but left for terrorists and Russia and China, YOU All are responsible for Ukraine today.

    President Biden and Vice President Harris are responsible for the policies that brought about this Russian evasion and its lack of focus. Every Ukrainian child after this war started and we refused to stop buying gas from Russia is blood on the hands of the American government and its people. Stand up for Ukraine!! Biden Harris sends money to Russia by buying its gas when we have enough gas here to never buy communist and socialist gas??!! The DC government seems enamored of communism taking over the world. The last administration knew how to keep Putin under control but this one seems to be in bed with Russia and China. Sick and shameful. Prove me wrong by turning on the pipeline and turning Putin’s off.

  19. Mac says:

    BIDEN TURN ON THE PIPELINE !! 60 million gallons is a three day supply !! You’re ruining our economy !! You can’t lie to us be sure we see it every day at the pump. You’ve doubled our gas prices by turning off the pipeline!! Stop lying to us !!

  20. Mark, west Sedona says:

    He keeps comparing himself to Trump and he keeps coming up short. There is no excuse for not being energy independent and electric cars won’t keep us from having an energy insecurity. Factcheck – We are producing 1,6 million gallons less under Biden than Trump. Biden was not truthful and he is now supporting Venezuela which fills Maduro’s coffers. Ineffective and pointless speech today. PS: Oil leases aren’t worth anything when the Biden government won’t let them be used. Germany is disgusted with the US.

    Put your RVs away. No visiting Arizona. Stop scapegoating oil companies when it’s Biden Harris energy boondoggle.

    Consumers are done with Democrats lies. WE WERE ENERGY INDEPENDENT UNDER TRUMP. Venezuela and Iran oil over Texas and New York oil and gas? Iran and Venezuela oil fields have no environmental controls and are destroyers of green initiatives. Get educated !!

  21. @all above says:

    Oh boy someone’s been very busy posting…
    LOL. Did you think we wouldn’t notice? Duh

  22. Ken says:

    “Just remember that Democrats want gasoline to hit whatever price per gallon it takes to get you to stop using it entirely. Never mind the damage that does to our economy or way of life.” Nate Jackson

    SOTU said we would release one and half days worth of reserves not 3 days. Americans aren’t very intelligent if they unquestionably fall for any politician or party.

  23. AIPAC says:

    Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fired at least a dozen missiles toward a U.S. Consulate compound outside the Iraqi Kurdish city of Erbil in an unprovoked attack and breach of Iraqi sovereignty this past weekend.
    The IRGC issued a statement claiming responsibility for the ballistic missile attack, claiming to have targeted “the strategic center of the Zionist conspiracies in Erbil.”
    Context: As nuclear talks in Vienna remain stalled, Iran and its proxies have increased their attacks against Americans and our allies in the region.
    Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have repeatedly attacked the United Arab Emirates with drones and ballistic missiles. American forces have responded with Patriot missiles to protect our friends and our deployed troops in the Gulf.

    This past January, U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria faced three straight days of Iranian-backed rocket attacks.

    Big picture: Restrictions on Iran’s ballistic missile program are set to expire next year, based on the Security Council resolution endorsing the JCPOA. The P5+1 must not reward Iran’s destabilizing actions at the negotiating table.

  24. Truth vs Social Media says:

    A Minnesota sheriff’s officer on Wednesday released video of an officer-involved shooting from last month that shows a 20-year-old woman pull a gun on a deputy before she was shot and wounded. Mahnomen County Sheriff Josh Guenther said that releasing the video was an effort to dispel a “narrative” spread on social media by a local coalition claiming the deputy attempted to murder the woman in the early morning hours on March 13 after a traffic stop that turned into a car chase.

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