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By: Dwight Bain, LMHC, NCC Strategies for parents, teachers and caregivers to manage hidden stress affecting kids during coronavirus lockdown Coronavirus is a serious threat that may not come to your home – your family may be spared the disease. Sheltering in place during community lockdown may protect you and your kids from the risk of infection. However, the pandemic impact will ripple out beyond physical health to financial reality and emotional overload. The most vulnerable populations are the very old and the very young. People are social distancing to protect the medical health of the very old. Parents and teachers need to understand the urgency to protect the mental health of themselves and the very young. Children look to their parents for cues on how to relate to their world. When parents are highly stressed, their children feel stressed. Coronavirus can scare children now, which could create emotional problems for months or even years to come. If a child feel

By: Dwight Bain, LMHC, NCC, CLC How Financial Fears Hurt Your Health and Can Cause Slow Suicide Coronavirus can destroy your health, and sadly can destroy your life. Not as a primary impact of the disease, since most patients tested positive for COVID-19 recover. No, as a secondary threat – slow suicide.  If the concept is new to you, slow suicide describes the passive self-destructive behaviors that erode physical and mental health. Alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, opioids, illegal use of prescriptions, junk food and addictive behaviors like gambling, pornography, spending or compulsive overeating. Americans know they should not eat, drink, watch or consume unhealthy things, yet during COVID-19 isolation many will skip the healthy behaviors Surgeon General Jerome Adams is begging them to do with social distancing to save life and choose instead to slowly weaken their own.  To decide to die by your own hand is not a new problem in America. Suicide is the #10 cause of