(Mental Health Association of East Tennessee)
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…