In the past few months, mental health professionals in this area have had to respond to event on top of event that has affected so many people all at once: the outbreak of COVID-19 and weeks of lockdown, job loss, anxieties about losing a job or reopening a business, storms and tornadoes.
Ben Harrington is CEO of The Mental Health Association of East Tennessee in Knoxville. Sarah Waldrop is the Association’s Southeast regional coordinator here in Chattanooga…