arthur evans with the american psychological association. we hear from mark next in glendale, west virginia. caller: thank you for taking my call. the vast majority of people that are dying, i'm not talking about very elderly people in nursing homes, i'm talking about younger people who might otherwise be healthy, are dying because they experience a cytokine storm which causes your lungs to fill up with fluid. it's actually kind of rare and that's why you have -- you almost never see young people under the age of 18, it's extremely rare for them to die. however, what this has to do with what the psychologist is talking about is the effects of chronic stress. that this, all of this, not just rioting and but the everything going on, increases cytokines tremendously. i believe that this is actually more of a factor in a lot of young people's deaths than the actual virus itself. host: ok, mark. dr. evans? guest: i can't speak to that particular thing the caller was talking about but we absolutely know that stress affects people's physical well b

arthur evans, ceo of the american psychological association. joining us to talk about that association's latest survey, on stress in the time of covid-19. dr. evans, welcome to the program. guest: thank you, led to be here. host: this is -- glad to be here. host: tell us why you did this survey initially, and what you found different this time around. guest: we have done the stress 2017.rica survey since we know that stress is related to a lot of our physical outcomes as well as mental health outcomes. we have been tracking on that, and since the pandemic, we have how doing surveys to see our stress levels are being affected by this pandemic. host: the survey is available at apa.org. into a numberlves of very current issues, including the aftermath of the killing of george floyd on may 12, the protests and the disturbances and unrest in cities across the country. tell us about that. guest: we did ask about that, and what we found is that about 60% of americans are concerned about racial discrimination, and have concerns about some of the report

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vaile wright, senior director for health care innovation with the american psychological association. dr. vaile wright, so nice to talk to you. so a couple of data points from apa survey, 50 percent of parents who were told rate between one and 10, your stress level. and they said they're somewhere between eight and 10. these are people with kids. another survey question found that 70 percent of people say the government's response to corona virus is actually caung them stress.erare quite high. are you surprised? dr. wright: honestly, we were shocked. we figured that parents with kids under the age of 18 were experiencing a brunt of the stress, but we didn't realize just how severe it was. was universal. it was not just democrats or everybody is concerned about how the federal response is impacting how we handle it right now. soledad: how is that stress that you're talking about? maybe not just stress in parents, but stress in people across the board. how is it manifesting itself? dr. wright: so people often report things like headaches and muscle tension, stomach problems, fatigue, a

arthur evans, chief executive officer of the american psychological association. welcome to you, and we thank you for being with us. dr. jeffrey geller is the president of the american psychiatric association and the director of public sector psychiatry at the university of massachusetts medical school. thank you, dr. geller. ms. arianna gross is a national youth advisory board member of the sandy hook promise students against violence everywhere, called save, promise club. welcome to you and take you for being with us. we are so pleased, we really are. it's an honor. so former congressman patrick kennedy, you are recognized for five minutes, please remember to unmute. we don't want to lose one word what you have to offer to us. thank you. >> thank you, madam chairwoman, and it's so great to see always, your family. and i just want to say in addition to your being family, it's nice that you shared your opening remarks with family, my cousin joe, who does everything i i tell them to do on mental health. i'm so honored that he's a member of this committee, which as s

no they can't prescribe someone's mental illness to them and in fact there's even an american psychological association guideline that says if you are not a physician actually treating the individual you are not to assess their psychological association however that didn't stop him s n b c c.n.n. from having people on for the past few years talking and talking about present times mental fitness but here's the big reckoning in the democratic party peter and that is democrats have to ask themselves are looking at mike bloomberg us a $1000000000.00 with a b that he said he's going to spend taking down president trump well if you have that $1000000000.00 focus the president trying but you also know that your own guy probably doesn't have the juice it takes to win in november what are you really doing and i think the democratic party has some soul searching to do here they're going to take down the president of the united states but they don't have someone to back fill that position you're you're only damaging america at that point. in your opinion is joe biden that your candidate the party's candidate beca

and arthur everts, ceo of the american psychological association discusses the latest stress in america report. watch at 7:00 eastern, tuesday morning. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. >> negotiations continue between congressional leaders in the white house on another coronavirus aid package. house speaker nancy pelosi and senate majority leader -- minority leader should chuck schumer gave a statement and treasury secretary steven mnuchin. good afternoon, everyone to our meeting with secretary mnuchin and chief of staff meadows. it was productive. we are moving down the track. we still have our differences. we are trying to have clear understanding of what n

arthur evans, ceo of the american psychological association. joining us to talk about that association's latest survey, on stress in the time of covid-19. dr. evans, welcome to the program. guest: thank you, led to be here. host: this is -- glad to be here. host: tell us why you did this survey initially, and what you found different this time around. guest: we have done the stress 2017.rica survey since we know that stress is related to a lot of our physical outcomes as well as mental health outcomes. we have been tracking on that, and since the pandemic, we have how doing surveys to see our stress levels are being affected by this pandemic. host: the survey is available at apa.org. into a numberlves of very current issues, including the aftermath of the killing of george floyd on may

since so many share this feeling, the american psychological association came up with a name for it -- ecoanxiety. [ chants ] >> what we're not doing is acknowledging the bigness of it -- >> reporter: renee lurtzman studies the psychology of the climate crisis. >> suddenly we're saying, guess what, everything that you thought was really amazing about being human, all these incredible developments, travel, food production, industrialization, that humans have benefited so much from and are very proud of, it's like all the sudden the narrative changes. it's like this is all actually destroying our planet. destroying lives that you care about and destroying the beings that we love. so that's a pretty intense message. >> it' bs big enough to short circuit our brains almost. >> exactly. exactly. >> how did we get here? how did good people with good inventions pave our road to hell? maybe we should start on highway 1. a prime example of nature versus hom an nature. look at this -- human nature. look at this, i'm driving on a highway over the ocean. the question now, though is for how long. y

doctors at american college of sports medicine say and this is from their new report out just late this week, participating in unusually high exercise work loads with the associated psychologicalnsient immune dysfunction and acute respiratory illness risk. people want to come out of their quarantine better than they went in. what is too much? is it a bad idea to push themselves and work out. >> with respect to that specific study the biggest topic right now, the biggest hot topic are the athletes ready to come back to the field and flay sports. we know there's a condition called myocarditis. a lot of covid patients are affected their heart is directly affected especially patients in the icu. we also find out a lot of athletes are developing myocarditis after testing positive for covid-19. what myocarditis does is cause scar tissue and increase sudden cardiac death. a lot of athletes are performing at a very high level already. that's why they are athletes. if they have covid-19, they could be putting their heart at risk for sudden cardiac death. >> does this, i guess according to the study pushing it really hard could make you more susceptible to getting coronavirus? >> just t

and arthur everts, ceo of the american psychological association discusses the latest stress in america report. watch at 7:00 eastern, tuesday morning. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. >> negotiations continue between congressional leaders in the white house on another coronavirus aid package. house speaker nancy pelosi and senate majority leader -- minority leader should chuck schumer gave a statement and treasury secretary steven mnuchin. good afternoon, everyone to our meeting with secretary mnuchin and chief of staff meadows. it was productive. we are moving down the track. we still have our differences. we are trying to have clear understanding of what the needs are. the needs are this. millions of children in the country are food insecure. the country are concerned about being evicted. tens of millions are on unemployment insurance. the way we can correct so much of that is for us to defeat the virus. much of our discussion has to be on how we defeat the virus and that takes dollars and policy. i think that we have had good s