Org, or listen. Ceo of the American Psychological association. We know we are feeling more stress and the apa is trying to qualify the scope of the problem. Dr. Evans our stress in America Survey tries to measure the stress level of the nation to understand what the sources of those stresses are, what coping strategies people are employing, and really to draw attention to the fact that stress is highly related to physical and Mental Health challenges we face. Thatwe are seeing now is stress related to the pandemic is very high in the United States. Almost 80 of americans are reporting significant stress related to the pandemic. The stressors of that people have already been reporting precovid and in addition to that there are unique characteristics of this pandemic that are adding more stress to what americans are experiencing. Many americans are experiencing more economic stresses because of the loss of a job or a closing of a business. Concernsme significant about Racial Justice and some of the protests we have seen. What we are seeing is a very significant level of stress in the population. We know that if we dont do something about that level of stress that it could lead to a whole variety of negative outcomes for people. Just to dig more into the stress in america report, which you can find online on the apa website. The stress particularly impacting the youngest americans. What did you find when it came to gen z . Has shown our survey consistently that older generations experience less stress than Younger Generations. We see that in this data as well. Ourchallenge is that younger adults and what we define as generation z, 14 to 17 and for young adults the ages from 18 to 23. That group is experiencing extreme amounts of stress related to their disruptions and , and disruptions in their life plans for younger adults who are looking many of them would be looking for their first job at this point. They are experiencing quite a bit of stress. Is thats, what we saw about half of them are very concerned about their future concernsand have about their life trajectory being disrupted by the pandemic. For young adults, what we have seen is that close to 90 of them who are in college are very concerned and stressed by their disruptions and their educations. Really high levels of stress, concern, and it points to the pact that we have to fact that we have to Pay Attention to our Younger Generations. Host until 10 00 a. M. Eastern we are talking about stress with dr. Arthur evans of the American Psychological association. Splitting up our phone lines regionally to let you talk about stress. In the eastern or central time zones. 202 7488001 in the mountain or pacific time zones. A special line for medical professionals. Medical professionals 202 7488002. Dr. Evans, you laid out the scope. What do we do about it . Dr. Evans we dont have enough boots on the ground when it comes to our Mental Health system. That isa system currently inadequate for the level of need that we have received in the country. The first thing we have to do is make sure that we are making a Financial Investment into our Mental Health system to make sure we are getting the resources and services. People who work in the Mental Health realm dont make as much as people in other areas. A wagee to pay people that is comparable to other areas of health care. We also have to make changes in organize and the way that we regulate Mental Health here in this country. Parts of ours and system, whether it is the federal or state level, there are barriers to care. In the medical system there are barriers that make it difficult for psychologists to work independently within that program. At a time when our seniors need more Mental Health services. We have to do both. Lets invest into our Mental Health system, but also lets make sure we are removing barriers that make it hard for us to provide services. To make, we really need a shift in the way we think about Mental Health and the way we respond to Mental Health in our country. Its a very reactive response so that we are intervening with when people are in crisis are have a diagnosis, but we are not intervening earlier where we could prevent or reduce the impact of the Mental Health challenge. It would be like if we were talking about cancer and we would be intervening at stage iv cancer when it comes to Mental Health, when we were responding to cancer in a similar way. Very reactive. You have to get what we talk about that means intervening at the earliest point. We have to pay for services when people dont have a diagnosis. It is a very diagnostically driven system that leads people that are in need. What the covid crisis is showing is that our survey and other surveys are showing that people are reporting stress, but also symptoms consistent with having Mental Health challenges even if people dont have a diagnosis. We can wait until those individuals have problems or are in crisis, or we can intervene now. We have to change how we finance our Mental Health care system. I think its important to change how we think about these issues as a nation. We have seen too often that Mental Health is viewed as something about them, those people over there with a Mental Health problem. Mental health is about us, all of us, because all of us experience and have Mental Health. We are somewhere on a continuum from having good Mental Health to having very significant challenges. Is start to to do see Mental Health as something that affects the entire population, that we take a population approach to this issue, that we intervene wherever people are on that continuum. If people are psychologically healthy we want to keep them healthy. We dont spend any of our resources on those caps of interventions. If people are at risk and they have not gotten to the point where they need intervention, how do we reduce the risk or minimally intervene at the earliest moment . For people that have significant problems we want to make sure that we have effective and efficient care. We have to work across the continuum and take more ownership ourselves of Mental Health, increasing Mental Health literacy meaning that in the same way that almost all of us exercised that if we and we have Good Nutrition and we sleep and those types of things, those are strategies that all of us know that will help prevent illness down the line. Understand what of the things are that we can do to keep ourselves psychologically healthy and what are the ships we have to do. One thing i will say about that, the American Psychological association is really trying to make a contribution in this area. Apa. Org we have a lot of resources for people in terms of their selfcare strategies they can use to increase the resiliency of their children, strategies employers and leaders can use to reduce anxiety and create more psychologically healthy work settings. Really is a lot of work we have to do as a nation. Create antrying to environment here were our viewers can call in and talk about stress, particularly stress related to the pandemic, this election cycle, all parts of the stress in america report available at apa. Org. This is david in independence, louisiana. Dr. Arthurth evans. Good morning. Caller good morning. Host go ahead. Im calling in desperation. I am so glad mr. Evans is on there. , the part thatna i live in, tara bone parish theres a gravel pit a couple miles north of me. The truck start rolling through here at about 1 30 or 2 00 in the morning, whenever they feel like it. They will roll six days or seven days a week, they dont care. I have been on the phone for three or four days talking with politicians from this area or state officials trying to convince them of what you say, that a lack of sleep will make you susceptible to disease. You will not heal correctly. Thats why they put you in the hospital when you are sick. These people are beating this neighborhood to death. There are people dying in this neighborhood. There are people down the road at the entrance which is 10,000 worth motion and noise than over here two miles south. Im trying, im so tired. Died, im notve saying they kill them, but for people have died. In one year, four different families within 1000 feet of the entrance. Thats all. Host david, thank you for sharing your story. I want to give dr. Evans a chance to talk about your story. Caller my heart guest my heart goes out to him, because i can imagine how difficult that is and the impact that is having on his Mental Health. What it is pointing out is something we have known for quite a bit of time. That our environment plays a big role in our Mental Health and physical health and that we have to Pay Attention. I hope he is able to do some advocacy so he can get relief from what he is experiencing. There is a study a psychologist in new york on schoolchildren whose school was near a train track. Building, the the classrooms where the children experienced the trains going by every day actually had a very significant loss in terms of performance. Onal they were one or two grades behind counterparts on the others of the building. The psychologist did advocacy with the school where they changed the level of noise that these childrens were experiencing and it made a big difference in terms of those children being able to catch up to their peers who werent experiencing that. It drives over the point this color was making that those environmental factors can play a big role and that we have to take action to address those. Otherwise you will have problems like the caller seemed to be indicating. Twittereve writes in on being a news junkie is unhealthy. We should all turn off our tv and go outside. This late in a political campaign, amid the news about a pandemic, when do you recommend people turn off the tv . Its a good point that we know from research. We know that a lot of media intake is not good for our Mental Health. We have to manage it. Aware ofo check and be what is going on in the world. We also know that if we do too much of that it will have a negative impact on our Mental Health. We have to be good judges of that. Where it ismes clear that i will theonly news related but kind of media and movies that we watch. We are under a lot of stresses come our survey is showing 80 of americans are under a lot of stress related to this pandemic. We have to be careful about our intake of information. I am very conscious about the kind of movies i watch on the weekend. I dont want to watch things that are going to get me upset or have my brain working. I need some time to calm down. Our media is very important. Modulating that so that we are not being stressed out by the amount of information we are taking in. T 78 of her pond and respondents in that stress in america report say the pandemic is a source of stress and the future of the nation its the lowest point in this nation in its history. Some of the findings of the stress in america report we are talking about this morning. This is ryan from california. About thewas calling definition of words. Words are very important. The people are not being educated in the words mean. Word . What caller they had the words to find that were used in the constitution and those were printed by the newspapers in all the different states so that people would know what the constitution said and what it meant. Democracy when Benjamin Franklin spoke to it and they discussed, why dont we call it a democracy rather than a republic, he defined the democracy and the republic. A democracy meant mob rules and a republic means liberty. Army in a word in english when you have a republic it means in regards to the republic. The republic controls the government, not the government controlling the people. Americansevans, on speaking the same language to each other but not understanding each other. Guest i think one of the things dr. Evans one of the things our survey showed is that there is a lot of stress related to the election. It was it was very high, 56 of the population had significant concerns about the election. Now we are in the 70s. 71 is the number. Arere reporting that people extremely stressed out by the political environment. Connection to what the caller was talking about is that we have to think about the civility of how we talk about the politics of the nation. We can disagree, but do it in such a way that we reduce the level of disagreement and the stress that causes. I think that is something all of us can do to be more conscious of that. I think our political leaders and to take some leadership understand their power is not just by the roles and appointments they get in their political position, but they play a big role in how we feel about ourselves and how we experience our environment, based on the tone they use. The language we use, how we talk about these issues is very important. Host on the pandemic, this is william in connecticut saying that of the black death it was said that half the people died of fear. Do you believe in a placebo effect in relation to the content reporting about covid. Pandemic ishe causing a lot of uncertainty in that is related to anxiety. We are seeing that and our data and anecdotally from clinicians working in this area. We have to understand that uncertainty leads to fear and to do as much as we can to reduce that uncertainty. Havewe worked with ceos, i been doing a lot of webinars with organizations of ceos and talking about, how did they help prepare their workforce to return to work, or how to they create an environment where their workforce is going to be psychologically healthy . One of the concepts we talked about is the issue of uncertainty and how they as leaders, if they can make decisions that reduce the uncertainty of peoples lives and create a more healthy psychological environment and reduce the anxiety people are experiencing. I will give you one concrete example. In my organization we have been making decisions about how long we were going to be in the virtual environment with very long time frames. Right now our staff know we are going to be in a virtual environment until june of next year. What does that do . It reduces uncertainty, particularly for parents who are thinking about whether or not they will have to come up with , if our stance as an Organization Changes during the school year it takes one things it reduces the anxiety around that area and allows people to deal with the other anxieties they have to deal with. Uncertainty leads to fear and the things we can do to reduce that and reduce anxieties. In rosedale, new york. Good morning. Caller good morning. I succumbed to the mindset that the media has devastated and affected the world in a negative way. [indiscernible] thwarted the peoples ability to discern the truth and know that the truth is in the matter, because it is so distorted. Its all around the world. Now that we have this vast amount of communication throughout the world, i dont know how we can fix that. We are being affected. Interpretations that we are receiving from the media and we have other sources as well. You dont complain in less you have a solution. Im not saying i have a solution. What i would like to say is we need to stop the hate. A human being as uman being whether you are muslim, jewish, buddhist, etc. , that person is a human being and we should respect that person. Host i want to let dr. Evans jump in. Where did you work and what topics did you cover as a journalist . Caller i worked in new york. I started out in the newspaper. Company for a chinese and they had so much knowledge about human beings. It was a great experience. They were highly involved. In new york. Agnes dr. Evans . Dr. Evans she talked about two things. One is about the media and the media we consume. In addition to what we talked about earlier in terms of limiting the amount of media that we take in, its also important to consider the sources. One way of reducing the stress around all of the incoming is to limit our media intake to trusted sources. There is a lot of misinformation out there, actual attempts to put fake information out there. On bothcould focus sources that we trust, it is more likely that we are not going to be as stressed about that incoming information. Onterms of the second part how we treat one another, that absolutely is something that is highly related to our mental , treating how we feel people with dignity and respect creates an environment that is psychologically healthier for people. Point about being intentional about that is important. It contributes to how we feel and how we relate to one another. This is val out of florida. Caller good morning, thank you. Thank you for washington journal and thank you, dr. Evans. I am concerned about children. You kind of addressed it a ofent ago, particularly some the Adverse Childhood Experiences perspective on how see thely we will consequences of trauma in childrens lives area i am concerned on how covid has disrupted society and how it has impacted children. Especially children who are already in psychologically unsafe environments. Question is, what is the apa doing in preparation for when children go back to school and helping them to recover in that way . From a funding, testing, support for schools i think we will have to be very proactive have to medicate the negative impact of children. Another great comment and ideas there. To remind people of our website, apa. Org. We have a lot of resources from parents, teachers, and other caregivers of children. We have resources on how to talk to your children about these types of events that are happening. A lot of resources there for that. One thing we know from the resurgence is that the disruption in social interactions children are having , that have a consequence those social interactions in Early Childhood are important to childrens development. Much of that is being disrupted. Is thing parents have to do be intentional about making sure there are opportunities for children to have those kinds of friends who have had a zoom play dates, scheduled zoom play dates for their children since the pandemic started. This is a wonderful kind of thing you can do as a parent that recognizes that those social interactions are very important. Beyond that, for parents its important to communicate with your children. I am a parent as well. My children are much older. Children dont always express what they are experiencing. We know from the survey that children are experiencing a lot of stress. Its important for you to know how your child is doing, how they are interpreting what is going on around them. How you help them make sense of what is going on . That twoway communication, checking in with them is important. Its important to model what we want our children to experience. One of the biggest predictors of how our children will do in terms of their social and Emotional Health is how we are doing as caregivers and parents. There is a saying, when you get on a plane and they are talking about how the mask will drop of the ceiling if you need oxygen and they tell you to put your mask on before you help your child. That same concept applies to other areas of our lives and it is important for us to make sure we are doing well because that will have a big impact on not only our ability to help our children but also it models for our children how they can better cope with stressful situations. Host has the apa made recommendations about one School Systems should be shut down and how School Systems should go about trying to get key kids kids back into school before we have a vaccine . We are trying to put the information about the importance of social interaction and strategies that caregivers can employ to help their children. It really is going to be up to educators and other folks who are balancing a number of things to make those decisions. Glen,from rutherford virginia this is william. Caller my name is william. The i am calling about is, way i see things, sometimes people dont realize that people are out here suffering as far as not being able to pay their bills. An insensitive president that always had the better of life. You have the people out here that dont have insurance and dont know when they will get their next meal. The way i was taught, a person is not going to go hungry, they are going to starve if they dont do anything else. It doesnt make society any better for any of us. In god we trust, that he will have the final say on this. The issue of economic stressors is really important. You talk about when people are unemployed. Our survey showed that for households under 50,000, they are experiencing significantly more stress than households above 50,000. Furthermore there are decades of research that show that whenever people are experiencing economic stressors or there is an economic downturn that we see rises in Mental Health challenges and demands on Mental Health systems. These things are inextricably tied and the economics of a community and a family are directly tied to our mental wellbeing. Neednother reason why we to be concerned whenever we have these kinds of downpours down host a question from twitter saying, dr. Evans is discussing a generalized level of its stress that most americans are feeling. Would you say this stress is more real than the corrective collective level of stress experienced by americans during world war ii . Dr. Evans its hard to say because we are not measuring stress levels at that point. What we do know is that through our survey that the general level of stress going on that there are certain groups within our population that are experiencing even more stress. Our survey showing parents, particularly women are experiencing more strength and Younger Generations are experiencing more stress. Color,lions of people of they are experiencing more stress. Differentat populations are experiencing more stress. We know people are experiencing different types of stress. Showedvey consistently that even with the pandemic and all the things that are happening now, people are still concerned about health care. People are concerned about rising suicide rates. People are concerned and stressed about the climate. Have this confluence of general stress people are experiencing, but we are seeing stress around specific issues and heighten stress for a certain population. Host talking with dr. Arthur nevins dr. Arthur evans about the stress in america report by the American Psychological association. Apa. Org if you want to check out that report. We have our phone lines split up regionally. Eastern or central time zones 202 7488001. For medical professionals 202 7488002. This is dennis out of georgia. Good morning. Astoundingind it that he said half of the people died of fear of that black plague . That was a tweet that we read from a viewer. I dont know where that data came from. They were asking that question in relation to fear today when it comes to covid. That was not dr. Evans. The president said he did not want to create fear. He also criminalized the media for sparking fear. Dr. Evans, fear . Is a real issue with her this pandemic. Result ofat fear is a the uncertainty. Another really interesting thing, psychologists do research in different areas. One area is around risk mitigation. How do we hear messages . Whenhing that happens people are fearful is that it changes how they hear the information. Leaders wek with talk about the differences that have in their Communication Styles based on peoples emotional state when people are angry for example to engagemore likely in increased risk and behavior when people are fearful they are much more likely to not do that. Canrstanding those dynamics be very important as we manage through this pandemic. Host from troy, michigan. Good morning. Caller hello . Good morning. , ifnted to ask dr. Evans universal health care will not relieve the amount of stress. There are 50,000 people according to harvard who die every year because they dont have insurance or they have inadequate insurance. Good morning. Host we will answer your question. Dr. Evans good morning, great question. When people have access to health care it is going to reduce their stress level. Concerns still today that we are registering is concerns about health care. People are very concerned about that. It is a source of stress and people dont have a way of accessing appropriate health care. If we take care of that issue it will reduce the stress level people are experiencing. Host on twitter a question about our devices that we are constantly looking at. Donna writing in just like cigarettes had a health warning, phones need one. Constantly looking at your phone has been shown to create high people needing immediate emotional feedback are becoming drones. What do you think . That ans she is right lot of viewing of media and using your phone can be very problematic. A lot of what this comes down to, it is one thing to be aware of these connections. Another is being aware of our behavior. We are not really aware of i notice that when my phone is on my desk and i can see the notifications and i am constantly looking at my phone. At the same time im trying to do other work. By definition that will create more cognitive load, particularly as we start to have divided attention. Its going to create more stress. Ritualsortant to have and other behaviors that we can engage in where we are more conscious and that we are being more intentional about how and when we use our devices. Host from decatur, alabama this is gina. Good morning. Caller good morning. Others like thousands of , got thrown out of high school in his senior year. All i needed to do as a mother was tell him, mom allied to, you college, they closed for the summer. Because hist a job father is elderly and puerto rican. You cant go in the military because my son has asthma. That was the hardest thing i ever had to do. Family,hrough it as a but everything was ok. One of his friends who happens to be africanamerican had to go down to decatur and pick them up one day because they talk online , that is his lifeline online. He had to go pick up one of his high school buddies, because he andgotten very suicidal that really worried me and him. I have had to do something i never dreamed i would have to do. I am a serviceconnected woman. Do rational emotive therapy with my son also in the early days of the pandemic. But thank theit, lord we are financially secure. I put him on what i would call. Niversal basic income that is all we know to do right now and we are in a hold pattern until we get a vaccine. I do appreciate the advice you have given today and i would like any tips you can give me as far as what are they supposed to do in the future . Host thank you for sharing that story. The number for the National Suicide prevention lifeline. 1800273talk. Dr. Evans . Dr. Evans thank you for your service to our country. Out somethingng that our survey showed, which is that the Younger Generation is experiencing much more stress. It makes sense because when we are older we have gone through some things, but nobody has gone through anything like the pandemic. Individuals have gone through 9 11, a recession, and we had those experiences that give us some skills in dealing with the current situation, even though it is very different than those others expect other experiences. Young adults have not had those experiences and it creates a lot of stress when they are seeing their whole world being changed, many feel their opportunities they would normally have for employment, or for a college would be disrupted. Is thing we can do acknowledge and validate the feelings they might be having around that. Its important for us to create meaningful ways they can connect to other people in their lives, their families and social networks. You mentioned a friend that he had. We know from a lot of research that one of the best predictors of how well we do in life is the level of social support and social connections that we have. Intentional about helping them to make those connections. People can become isolated with social distancing. We have to take the extra steps at making those private connections. This points to a policy issue for us as a nation. How do we deal with the reality that we are probably going to have two years of young peoples lives being significantly disrupted at this point where they will go out into the work world, how are we going to deal with that as a nation . We will need programs that help with education and training, and creating new pathways for people , or we will have a significant number of young people whose lives have been disrupted and it might be harder to get them back on track. This is an issue from the standpoint of what can we do as family members, and people in young adults lives, but its also a policy issue that we have to take on as a nation. Host to burnside, kentucky this is robert. Good morning. Robert, are you with us . Then we will go to carol in glen bernie, maryland. Good morning. Carol, are you with us . Caller yes i am. Good morning. Why nobody isow worried about the pandemic, they are worried about computers and this or that . Chaos and nobody seems to be doing anything about it. The poor people are struggling. Why dont they just tell the truth about the pandemic . Host she brings up issues in your report. Dr. Evans i think people are concerned about the pandemic. The message i would like to make sure people here is that i think we have to be as a nation much more concerned about the psychological and Mental Health aspects of the pandemic. I think we have been appropriately focused on how we bend the curve of the virus. We also have to be focused on how we dim of the Mental HealthMental Health curve. If we are not paying enough attention to this issue, we know we will see increased substance use, more depression, morning dieting, increased symptomatology in those areas. This dont get ahead of and start making investments now to make sure we dont have those negative outcomes, our systems will be overwhelmed. Most of us understand the real impact of this virus in addition to all the lives that have been lost is that it is putting tremendous strain on Hospital Systems around the country to the point where some of them are having to divert people to other hospitals. I read stories about people having to go 50 miles away from their home, that is putting people at risk turn awayart to people from Mental Health services, people who might be suicidal for at risk for other highrisk behaviors, it is just as dangerous. We have to be concerned as a nation about the full breadth of the impact of this pandemic and pay much more attention to these issues. The ceos are starting to understand and Pay Attention to this issue. I will be talking to business organizations next week about this. Ceos understand this forget we need more of our elected officials and political leaders to understand that we have a crisis like nothing we have seen and that we are going to experience a tsunami over the next several years if we dont get ahead of this. We have to make the investment now. Minutes leftout 10 with dr. Arthur evans. The latestabout stress in america report. In just over two hours here on capitol hill, a rare sunday session of the United States senate. The Senate Continues to debate the nomination of judge Amy Coney Barrett to the supreme court. You can watch the Senate Session live on cspan two on noon eastern. Just to let you know what will happen, this is fox news capital producer chad program and his series of tweets explaining the process. The senate set to meet at noon in a rare sunday session to debate the nomination. The senate has keyed up a procedural vote to kick off a filibuster of the nomination. The specific time the senate closes the vote will dictate what time they vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett tomorrow night. By rule once the senate votes to end debate today opponents of the nomination are permitted 30 hours of additional debate, but thats it. Senate closes the vote to end the debate around 2 30, democrats can run 30 hours off the clock before an Actual Senate vote happens meeting the confirmation vote would begin around 8 30 p. M. Monday night. Takingcedural steps place today on capitol hill in the Senate Chamber and you can watch live this sunday at noon eastern on cspan two. Back to your phone calls with dr. Arthur evans here on stress in america. Innk you for waiting hamilton, ohio. Discussi wanted to Domestic Abuse and the suicide rates that seem to be soaring. I stay stressed out over this and i do watch all of it. I must cspan and political junkie. Something my wife said set me off, its so out of character for me. Host dr. Evans . Dr. Evans i hope that you reach out for help, because thats clearly defined stressed and im glad its not a pattern of behavior. It shows that you are experiencing a level of stress that is significant if you are i hope you reach out for help and get some help around that. The issue around Domestic Violence and violence in the home is a significant issue. We have seen rises across the country and around the world, the American Psychological association is part of a Global Coalition of psychological societies from around the world. We talk every weekend to meet every week and share information. Around the world we have talked to people on every continent about how these issues are playing out and all of us are seeing increases in inhome violence as we have gone into a lockdown or come out of it. We are seeing those increases. We have to Pay Attention to this. There are a number of resources out there for people who might be experiencing that type of inhome violence and we hope the people will reach out. To the callers point we all have to be aware of our own signs of stress. Stress manifests itself differently in all of us. When i am stressed one of the first signs is i start forgetting things. I will forget a meeting or something i was supposed to do. That is my clue that i need to Pay Attention to what is going on with me. Most of us know when we are stressed and hopefully it does not get to that point of violence. Whether it does or not it is important to manage that. We mentioned the National Suicide prevention lifeline, i can never give that number out of enough. 1800273talk. There is also a Domestic Violence talk line. Safe. 99 just want to give those numbers out for anyone who might be listening who might need it. Thankans to that collar, you for making that call and raising that issue. Thats one issue that was not talked about a lot and a lot of people suffered in silence, so im glad we could raise that issue. Host cecil from raleigh, North Carolina. You are next. I have agreed with this stress thing. You have had stress and everyone in this world has had. [indiscernible] challenge at the front of the line, m white skinned color does make a difference. When you put it in where we are today, everybody is an authority on stress because that is exactly where a person is quarantined and i am telling you about the world when you get to the end of the road, things are changing. Because you keep redeeming and you find years it was not so good. Was cecil from North Carolina bringing up a lot of issues there. Giving you the final minute and a half to discuss the issues. Dr. Evans i want to discuss the issues around race and race stress. The surveys show that africanamericans in particular and also other ethnic groups are experiencing heightened stress. Some of that is related to recent events, some of the things we have seen in the news. One thing that is important is for people to acknowledge that those events that we have seen, whether it is george floyd, breonna taylor, or Ahmaud Arbery , any of those events do have an impact researcher at harvard has done studies that look at what happens when there are police or at least, perceived as unjustified Police Shootings and communities of in communities of color. What he has documented is there of mentalease need Health Services in the aftermath of those events in ways we do not see when there are other kinds of traumatic events happening in the community. This is a real phenomenon. I think it is important for people to be aware of that, understand that it is real. Thatake steps to make sure they are doing things they can to help manage that. That includes many things i have talked about today about social support and connections. Talking to people who can have help provide that support. Being socially active in doing issues oraddress the in equities might be seeing and experiencing. All of those are important. Host all available at the website. We will have to end it there for today. Certainly we will have you on again down the road. You have washington journal. Every day we take your calls live on the air and discuss policy issues that impact you. Coming up monday morning we have a preview of the planned senate vote on the confirmation of judge Amy Coney Barrett to the with nationalourt Senate Reporters at . Also a discussion of the battleground state of florida watch washington eastern and a. M. 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