The pandemic has impacted everyone, but new research by NBC News shows our kids are under heightened stress, and it’s taking the pleasure out of school—and for some kids, creating serious mental anguish and pain.

For NBC’s weeklong series “Kids Under Pressure,” correspondent Kate Snow talked to kids about how they’re coping, and in our conversation, we discussed the series and why Snow decided last year to write about the stress she felt when her husband fell ill with Covid, leading her to seek treatment with a therapist.

Here’s Kate’s story, 'I am seeing a therapist': Kate Snow discusses teletherapy, stress of COVID-19

And here’s my story, ‘Screw Stigma: I’m coming out’

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In Episode 9 of the podcast, I interviewed David Katz, whose new book, Barack Before Obama, is filled with hundreds of rarely or never-before-seen photos of a then-little-known state legislator named Barack Obama. Katz, who joined Obama’s 2004 campaign for the U. S. Senate, became the candidate’s photographer and captured previously unseen images of the man who would become president. In our conversation, we talked about how he got to know Obama—and how he earned enough trust that Obama let him photograph his private moments with his wife and daughters.

In our conversation, we talked about how he got to know Obama—and how he earned enough trust that Obama let him photograph his private moments with his wife and daughters.

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