the constant drinking, like laying in bed >> reporter: like 42% of adults in a new american psychological associationtudy, lashanta and amanda gained weight during the pandemic >> what the study shows is that americans are experiencing a lot of stress, that they may not be aware of that stress but it's showing up in their behavior >> reporter: adults who gained weight packed on an average of 29 pounds more than half of adults say they're less physically active than they wanted to be 2 out of 3 are not sleeping right and nearly one in four reported drinking more alcohol. >> i said to myself, you have to make a change you cannot live this way. and then i saw deann's post >> reporter: last april deann stull created a facebook group called slim and sassy. >> out, in >> reporter: every day she posts a workout and inspiration for hundreds of women including lashanta and amanda >> it just blows my mind how a facebook post holds so many of us accountable every single day >> reporter: the american psychological association recommends setting specific goals and creating routine and don't go it alone. find an a

. >> reporter: a surveyor from the american psychological association shows american experiencing unprecedented stress in the pandemic. >> we have adopted over the course of the pandemic. what the survey is showing is some of our adaptation has been unhealthy. >> reporter: 61% of adults experienced undesired weight changes. 42% report gaining weight, average of 29 pounds. 67% are sleeping more or less than they would like to. 23% are drinking more alcohol. the survey also highlights the toll the pandemic has taken on parents with school-aged children. 47% of mothers and 30% of fathers with children learning remotely say their mental health has gotten worse. communities of color are also being impacted during the pandemic. >> both for hispanics and african americans that they had elevated levels of stress in certain areas, particularly when it came to thinking about the future. >> reporter: dr. evans warns this country needs to act now for mental health. >> we need to shift from a system and approach that waits until people are in crisis to a process where we are not only dealing with crises but

the american psychological association is who. world's largest organization of psychologists and probably has the most influence over the community of psychologists around the world. secretly the a.p.a. psychologists but king in the tour to president to override that ethical code. if the minute change in cia be quiet it. program of abusive interrogations the program of torture at the cia was designed by psychologists and one tunnel was designed by a psychologist and a psychiatrist after they were trained in the techniques and in the program of the cia abuse. and that's when i could basically stand you know. and so suddenly i went chronic just being the psychologist in my office. to becoming the face of opposition to the a.p.'s position. the war is a strategic business. our planning and our execution needs to be really well thought out. and it has consequences for years. i was in conversations with the department defense and with the white house. and i learned that we had psychiatrists and psychologists who were advising the interr

a new study from the american psychological association found nearly 1 in 4 adults reported drinking more to cope with stress during the pandemic. now doctors are seeing a steep rise in alcohol-related illness. catie beck has details. >> this used to be the bar in the house. >> reporter: as covid cases were spiking last spring, so was laney warnecki's alcohol use. at times she was drinking a bottle or two of wine a night. >> it seems like alcohol was the prescription to make it feel better like, numb that stress. >> reporter: the stress of being locked down at home with two children, while working a full-time job. warnecki spent much of the day thinking about her next drink. >> it was all consuming at a certain point. >> reporter: doctors say increased alcoho consumption fueled by the pandemic is already taking a heavy toll on health. >> we're seeing more and more particularly during the pandemic are those with liver disease. >> reporter: admissions for liver disease is up 30% this year specialists at other large hospitals sa theirs have shot up by 50% since last march. >> my concern

the american psychological association calls it the chronic fear of environmental doom. but really what i want to say is there is nothing pathological about feeling this. it's the not a disorder or something you get diagnosed with. but it's something you can work with for post-environmental actions and other benefits. >> you started suffering from it after you got married and were considering having kids, right? >> i was, absolutely, dealing with new levels of ecodistress when my partner and i were about starting to try to get pregnant. keeping track of the path we are on, the terrifying future we are walking into and looking at the environmental things we are experiencing, and the racial and economic disparities that are deepening, really the harms already here with us but that we know are ramping up matched with completely inadequate action from the political establishment is a really painful dilemma for me. that's how i got in touch with it. but many people have their own story. >> it's not the same but i remember after 9/11 i considered having kids and i started to w

the american psychological association has studied this and shown that black boys in particular are seenre robbed of our childhood in so many ways and criminalized. that's what this school to prison pipeline is about. and you can't look at this video. everyone denied the innocence. he didn't even understand the words that were being said. he is 5 years old developmentally. i have four children under 10. as you know, it just somehow that just escaped these officers and everyone else there. and so all i can say is that it just shows that there is deep seated issues in our criminal justice system. the work that we've been doing to reimagine public safety and to remove police from schools and to support students with social, emotional, mental health, psychologists, crisis counselors, that's what is needed. and that didn't happen here. >> and also, the evolution over the years about spanking and how to discipline kids. when i was in school, i went to catholic school, and they spanked us. now studies have shown, and people have evolved on that whole idea of spanking and beating kids. it's not

that's what the american psychological association is calling gun violence following the two recent massthe united states that have left 18 dead. in a statement, the organization urges lawmakers to take immediate action. joining us is jack rozel ll, an he's an associate professor of psychiatry at the university of pittsburgh. doctor, thank you for joining us. this is a complex problem. i want to ask first on the apa's call to a little. do you think what they're talking about here is a community-based team that would include police, mental health educator, community advocates who can deal with individuals in crisis who are at risk to harming themselves or others, is that enough to keep guns out of the hands of people who would use them to harm others? >> it's not enough, but it's a good start. gun violence is a complex problem. there's a lot of moving pieces. if it was simple enough i could explain it in a sound bite, we wouldn't still be having this problems, but that multidisciplinary perspective, times with law enforcement, sometimes with people who know that person of interest, we can

. >> reporter: the american psychological association finds the majority of adults reported undesiredndemic. most people gained weight unintentionally. but 18% of adults lost weight they weren't planning to lose. on average, 26 pounds. and look at the weight gain numbers. 29 pounds gained on average. 37 pounds the average for men. a year ago, sherry suddenl had to teach from home. and steven worried about the future of his industry. how did you cope? >> we found ourselves eating a lot. we would have not one glass of wine at night but probably a second cocktail. we were having potato chips. >> reporter: did you gain weight? >> yes. >> reporter: fathers are more likely to report behavior and physical changes. . >> i certainly didn't talk about it a lot. it's one of the things where you want to project that everything is going to be okay. you just didn't know. just no control. >> reporter: half of adults say they are less physically active than they wanted to be since. pandemic again. and two out of three americans say they're not sleeping right. . >> people sleeping too much and people

in some cases they've gained a great deal of weight a new survey from the american psychological associationsion and mental health struggles also found out something else that 42% of american adults that they surveyed anyway reported gaining weight incredibly the average weight gain is 29 pounds. nearly 30 pounds per person. and the weight was gained across all age groups it was the millennials, those 25 to 42 who felt the impact of the pandemic and the lockdown the hardest. again, of those surveyed by the apa, 48% of millennials said they gained weight they did not want to. of those millennials who did gain weight, they gained an average of 41 pounds gen-xers and boomers not nearly as much. depression, lack of activity, lack of social comfort, a 23% in drinking alcohol all largely playing a role most restaurants were closed only things open were fast foods. another article i read said steps taken, walking dropped 30% last year as compared to previous years based on cell phone data and we also like to have fun on this rbi segment who wants to be all serious at 5:45 at times. this is not one

related to the pandemic it's showing up in their behavior >> the new study from the american psychological associationintentionally. 18% of adults lost weight they weren't planning to lose, on average 26 pounds. and look at the weight gain numbers. 29 pounds gained on average. 37 pounds the average for men. a year ago, shery suddenly had to teach from home and steven worried about the future of his industry >> how did you cope? >> we found ourselves eating a lot. we would have not one glass of wine at night but probably a second cocktail. we were having ruffles and lay's potato chips >> did you both gain weight? >> yes >> the study found mothers are more likely than fathers to say their mental health has worsened but fathers are more likely to report behavioral and physical changes. >> i didn't talk about it a lot. it's one of the things where you want to project that everything is going to be okay. you just didn't know it's just no control >> reporter: more than half of adults say they're less physically active than they wanted to be since the pandemic began and 2 out of 3 americans say they're not s

there's a report from the american psychological association that shows 2/3 of americans say their sleep patterns have changed and 3 and 4 have said there's differences in the stress levels. how big of a crisis is this? >> the numbers speak for themselves. depressive disorder has quadrupled, and this is according to the census bureau released late last year. it's something that we have never dealt with before. it's what i call a mental health tsunami. something that is testing us, stressing us in every way possible. and psychologically has turned our world up side down. >> let's get to questions from viewers, beginning with the question from marcy. who asks, how do people who tend to be home bodies reenter the world when they have not been in contact with people and friends for over a year. it's terrifying for some people to think of having to face social situations again. how do they get over the hurdle and how do people who love them help them? i worry about kids in this situation especially, mine included. doctor? >> well, marcy, i think is that is an incredible question because this

there's one report from the american psychological association that shows 2/3 of americans, 2/3, saye all righted high stress levels. how big of a crisis is this? >> well, the numbers speak for themselves, joshua. as a matter of fact, the share of americans reporting symptoms of anxiety disorder, depressive disorder, are both roughly quadruple from june 2019 to december 2020. and this is according to the census bureau study released late last year. so this is something that we've never dealt with before. this is what i call a mental health tsunami. something that is testing us, stressing us in every way possible and psychologically has turned our world upside down. >> let's get to some questions from viewers beginning with a question from marcy who asks, "how do people who tend to be home bodies re-enter the world when they haven't really been in contact with people and friends for over a year? it's terrifying for some people to think about having to face social situations again. how do they get over that hurdle and how do people who love them help them? i worry about kids in this si

. >>> moving on, a new study by the american psychological association finds that having more money doesn'tily make you more grateful or compassionate. researchers analyze data from more than 1.6 million people. they found that high income earners feel more confident and prideful, but they are not necessarily more compassionate or loving. authors did note that the study can't prove if higher income causes the emotions, or if there is a link between them. i think we've all run into people who are very wealthy and miserable, and those who are not so well off, but happy with what they have. so spencer, what do you make of this? >> well, you know, i think there are obviously generous and not so generous people at all income levels. there are some very generous and philanthropic wealthy people and there are some who are tighter than all the metaphors you can think of. and then there are some people who are super, super generous. i grew up in a poor family. my dad was a labor, didn't ever earn much money. he worked hard. but he was the most generous guy in the world. he would make little christma

realms as well the associate executive director of legal and regulatory affairs for the american psychological association. she is also the daughter of heart mountain inmates heart mountain incarceries. so we'll talk about the exact terminology. we should use for this and surely you say early on in this marvelous book. you've written a setsuko's secret heart that experience of your parents in heart mountain. in fact reading from the dust jacket where you often find the most interesting material about the book as children shirley and he and her brothers new heart mountain only is the place their parents met and matching and imagining it as a great stardust ballroom in rural, wyoming. why is this book set? so close secret tell us tell us who is sensico. and who was this woman? well such a co is my mother who? essence passed and so the story goes is that in 2005 after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on her deathbed. she said she wanted her memorial money. we were riding her obituary to go to the heart mountain wyoming foundation. and essentially we were quite stunned by this because my mother as wel

in the same month, the american psychological association had a survey on stress that found 42% of americansre than -- >> yeah. >> i believe that we are a nation of fat even without the covid. i got on the scale with my eyes closed. i couldn't even open my eyes. i got off without looking. i don't even want to know. >> i went to the doctor. they read out the number out loud. i was approaching the number i have not approach bred before. >>> mine is about the 182nd anniversary of the word "okay." a boston news editor used "okay" at the end of a photograph at the saturday morning edition of boston morning post. it was a correction of the phrase "all correct." the story points out there was an abbreviation craze in the 19th century like today when we use omg or oh my god and lol for laugh out loud. what i like about okay, it's considered the most used in our language. it means so much depending on your inflexion. okay. or okay, i've had enough, or okay, stop talking. >> it's also international. >> i didn't know it meant all correct. >> i didn't either. >> i thought it meant okeydokey. what a stra

the american psychological association says you must take those threats seriously. that is what we are writing about. a common-law approach, in this case. rhode island says any police officer, and they wrote this after this case began, any police officer can take an individual into protective custody, if the officer has reason to believe he is in need of immediate care and treatment, and there would be a risk of serious harm by reason of mental disability, if he is allowed liberty. what about that? if the officer has reason to believe that there is an imminent likelihood of serious harm by reason of mental disability, suppose we said well, for this case, that is a reasonable standard. mr. desisto: it is in the fourth amendment standard. justice breyer: that's what i'm asking you. it is in general laws 1950 6, 40 .1-5-7 and .1. mr. desisto: yes. justice breyer: what do you think of saying, rhode island here has written a standard that is reasonable as applied to this case? and then i will read the sentence i just read you. it does not say probable cause. it's as if t

the american psychological association says you must take those threats seriously. that is what we are writing about. a common-law approach, in this case. rhode island says any police officer, and they wrote this after this case began, any police officer can take an individual into protective custody, if the officer has reason to believe he is in need of immediate care and treatment, and there would be a risk of serious harm by reason of mental disability, if he is allowed liberty. what about that? if the officer has reason to believe that there is an imminent likelihood of serious harm by reason of mental disability, suppose we said well, for this case, that is a reasonable standard. mr. desisto: it is in the fourth amendment standard. justice breyer: that's what i'm asking you. it is in general laws 1950 6, 40 .1-5-7 and .1. mr. desisto: yes. justice breyer: what do you think of saying, rhode island here has written a standard that is reasonable as applied to this case? and then i will read the sentence i just read you. it does not say probable cause. it's as if t

the american psychological association put up that part of teens' state of mind is how they see theirr the future. 51% to say the pandemic makes planning for the future feel impossible. 81% say they were negatively impacted by school closures. did you get a sense from the parents you talked to of any warning signs that they might pass on to other parents, whose teens might be having some trouble? >> martha: i think there are some typical things, changes in behavior, sleep patterns, changes and friends. all of those are things that stand out but one of the scariest things here is that in some cases, they did not have the kinds of triggers and attention that you might expect. and i think it's very interesting what you mentioned before, and that is that older people tend to have dealt with this better than younger people. and i do think in some ways there has been an impact of peer culture that has been put into some of these young people. older people have been through the ups and downs of life in a more comprehensive way, perhaps but we really have to watch our young people. talk to th

this is a high profile issue for the american psychological association. we have been working with associations to look at ways we can help get more providers and more variants. loan providers are important, but it is also important to make sure we have medicaid expansion. in rural communities, hospitals often are strained by the number of people who have -- who are uninsured, and those hospitals go away. often there is no behavioral health care provider in the community. we have to look at making sure that the individual is also covered and their services will be covered, and the providers that are in those communities, so we also need to make sure that we train providers to work in these communities because there are unique issues. farmers, for example, have a suicide rate that is significantly higher than the rest of the population. they have unique issues, and generic mental health services often are not responsive to the unique strategies or the unique issues that those individuals are facing, so we need to have a range of strategies to make sure we s

ashley: english terms, according to a poll from the american psychological association 42% of us adultsage weight gain of 41 pounds. on the more extreme end, 10% of those surveys took on 50 pounds. the apa says the weight gain comes with significant risks including higher vulnerability to serious illness. there is a price to pay when ordering pizza and other goodies when you stay home for the year. stuart: i thought i was alone. ashley: no, no. stuart: that was brutal. ashley, you all right? thanks very much. we've told our audience about zoom fatigue, exhaustion from nonstop video calls. we will tell you what they are doing in a moment. sandals resort offering free on-site covid testing. are people willing to travel internationally? sandals on the show. what exactly are they selling? sandals on the show after this. ♪♪ ♪♪ vacation hard to get away ♪♪ future. but thinking about the future, is human nature. at edward jones, our 19,000 financial advisors create personalized investment strategies to help you get back to your future. edward jones. we started with computers. we didn't stop at

ac >> the american psychological association says you must take those threat seriously. that's what we are writing about. the common-law approach in this case and they wrote the statute after the case began and then to take them into protective custody, if the officer has reason to believe he is in immediate care and treatment and a risk of serious harm is reasonable mental disability what about that? the officer has reason to believe serious harm for mental disability and then said for this case that is a reasonable standard. >> isn't that the fourth amendment standard? >> i don't know. that's what i am asking you. in general 1956. >> yes. >> what do you think is simply saying as written a standard that is reasonable as applied to this case? and then i read the sentence i just read to you it is a probable cause if the officer has reason to believe. >> i go back to the question presented because that is whether the community caretaking exception to the fourth amendment extends to the home. so for purposes of suicide in rhode island that doesn't answeron the question. >>

congressional black caucus, hispanic caucus, asian and native american caucus with the urban league and national psychological association for racial inequity, we just finished a poll. that poll say as in the black population, 67% of african-americans want the vaccine. guess what, if we focus on the people that want the vaccine, they are related to, are friends with people who are hesitant. and the more we focus on that, they can show their friends, neighbors and family members that they're okay. i think that's the better way to address hesitancy. we also need trusted community voices, and that's also part of this bill. >> yeah. and those mobile clinics, it sounds like -- >> yes. >> -- are a real possibility. stay in touch with this issue. it's important. appreciate your being here today, karen bass, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> breaking news next, will republicans regret not supporting this massive bill? i'll ask a form er republican congresswoman next. >>> plus 400,000 children at risk of dying in one country as most of the world turns a blind eye, we'll take you inside the hospitals for a heartbreaking cnn i