As Connor Knighton will explain. Reporter the past few months, bears have been packing on the pounds, getting are there get r their selfimposed quarantine. The first time i got to see them during quarantine, they were so cool. Reporter scientists study the mystery of hibernation. Underneath all of that fat may be everything from diabetes tools to space travel. A long winters nap ahead on sunday morning. Pauley from there it is on to one of the great comic legends of all time. And his name is bob newhart. And he is talking this morning with our Ben Mankiewicz. Hello . Bob newhart had not one, but two, hit tv shows named for him. Not bad for an accountant. If i had been with enron, they would have still been in business. The government would never have figured out my books. Reporter laughs with the trailblazing comedian later on sunday. [laughter] pauley and then we consider a question over mind over matters, those matters being the daily challenges of living with covid and the emotional toll it is taking. Susan spencer cuts the experts. Reporter from hoarding Hand Sanitizer to living in lockdown, the battle for our physical health is doing a number on our Mental Health. It is not few exaggerated to say this could be a second pandemic. A Mental Health pandemic . Reporter yeah. Thats what a lot of us are expecting. All over the world. Reporter feeling a little anxious lately . Ahead on sunday. Pauley david pogue watches the big move chess has made towards crowd appeal. Lee cowan looks back on the life of sean connery. The very first james bond in the movies. Mo rocca remembers a first lady whom many consider first among equals. Faith salie meets a voter who puts noshows to shame. Plus Major Garrett and John Dickerson on the campaigns final days. Along with Steve Hartman and more on this sunday, the 1st of novembe november 2020. Well be back in a moment. Pauley much of we humans may welcome any chance to sleep in. Were practically insomniacs compared to animals that hibernate. It is a curious phenomenon that is beginning to yield some of its secrets. Here is our Connor Knighton. Reporter for a bear, brooks falls at Katmai National park in alaska is like one of those Conveyor Belt sushi restaurants. Diners are treated to an Endless Supply of salmon. This summer the alpha of omega3consumption was a bear known at 737, the winner of the back bear week contest. Jumbo jetsized 747 is estimateed to way 1400 pounds. Of course, all of those pounds serve a purpose. Bears have an enormous appetite. And they will eat and eat and eat to gain that fat mass to survived hibernation. Reporter heiko jansen is a professor of neuroscience at Washington State university, home to the countrys only dedicated Bear Research center. Located in pullman, washington, the center houses 11 grizzlies, and these big mammals are helping scientists unlock some of hibernations mysteries. First, lets clear up the hibernation of misconception. Im getting awfully sleepy. Reporter the cartoon hibernation involves bears going to sleep in november and waking up for the first time in spring. I set the alarm clock for, like, spring. Reporter but thats not quite what happens. They actually dont sleep all of the time. They have a fairly regular sleepwake pattern. They may get up and stretch a little bit. Reporter in fact, pregnant females give birth and nurse their cubs during hibernation. The more fat the mom puts on going into the den, the bigger the cubs and the more she can produce. Reporter but what scientists dont understand is how bears can get so heavy and stay relatively healthy. Bears eat a ton, get fat, and dont get diabetes. They exhibit some of the signs that type 2 diabetics exhibit, but all of that reverses itself. Reporter in the lab, fat cells are analyzed for clues as how the bears beet diabetes. The answers could have implications far beyond the bear world. Hopefully what ill do wll figure out would works and help humans as well. Reporter a treatment for type 2 diabetes may be hiding in hibernation. If we humans can lower our own Metabolic Rate the same way that bears do, well, then the skies would no longer be as limiting. This is the first time that men have been put into hibernation before departure. Reporter in 2001, a space odyssey, some of the crew goes into hibernation to conserve food and water en route to jupiter. Even lowering our Metabolic Rates by a huge percentage point would have a huge benefit to the amount of stuff you simply had to carry on a spacecraft. Reporter although so much snoozing would present its own set of challenges. Humans laying down for six months would lose a tremendous amount of bone. But bears arent losing bone massmen mass. Theyre not becoming osteoporotic, like humans. Reporter why . Nobody really knows. The center opened in 1986 to help answer those types of questions. The grizzlies either come from the greater yellowstone region, or they were born onsite. Since the researchers control the diet, they start shrinking the portions in the fall to mimic what would be happening in the wild. It is usually a mix of kibble and apples with one occasional treat. They would do almost anything for a large bowl of honey. Reporter i cant believe that is the bear stereotype that is true. The winnie the pooh thing. Thats true, they love honey. Here you go. Reporter for a few squirts of honey, the bears kick out their paws for a final prehibernation blood draw. Good bear. Reporter theyll be examined again in april, but for the next several months, it is pretty hands off. Theyll be monitored on camera while they laze around. With so much uncertainty in our world, it is hard not to be a little envious of hibernateds. 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I plan for all of the worst things that could happen. I have firstaid kits everywhere. I have, like, multiple ones in my house. Reporter firstaid kits . Yes, firstaid kits. Somebody could get their head lobbed off, and i probably could get it back on with the firstaid kits i have around. Reporter you describe yourself as suffering from something you call contamination phobia. Can you explain what that is . As far as germs go, up until i see somebody sneeze or something, im usually okay with it. I dont go to hazmat levels of cleaning unless somebody is sick, and then i kind of lose my mind. Reporter she has been accused of overreacting for as long as she can remember until covid19 came along. One of my friends online commented to me the other day, and she goes, how does it feel to have maskwearing normalized finally . And im, like, im not going to get stared at anymore. Reporter but as gratifying as you think that might be, she says the pandemic has actually made her o. C. D. Worse. It is much harder to control symptoms and habits and stuff like that when you are genuinely, you know, at risk for these things. How do you tell yourself, no, thats too much Hand Sanitizer, when at this point there is no such thing as too much Hand Sanitizer. Were in the midst of a Health Epidemic right now, and i only think it is going to get worse. Reporter you dont think the worst is over . No, not at all. I think the worst is yet to come in terms of Mental Health. There is going to be tremendous grief and mourning for all the lost people and the lost opportunities and the lost dreams and hopes that people had. Reporter she says the pandemic is aggravating Mental Illness among those already battling it, and taking a toll on the rest of us, too. Anxiety always rises in the face of uncertainty. And were living in very uncertain times. Reporter more than half of American Adults say theyre Mental Health has suffered because of the pandemic. Prescriptions for antidepressants shot up 14 after the initial outbreak. You could argue that given all that is going on, having a Mental Health issue is just a normal reaction. Absolutely. So what we really have to be careful of, when were talking about Mental Health during this time, is what is an actual anxiety or depressive disorder, and what is just a stress response that makes sense given how uncertain the world feels. Reporter atlanta psychiatrist dr. Sarah vinson says her days are packed with returning patients and firsttimers, concerned there is something seriously wrong. How do you know when you should really worry about it . A big thing that differentiates typical stress versus a disorder, there is actually impairment. Is this getting in your way . Is it making it difficult or impossible, even, for you to do your work, fulfill your responsibilities in your household, sleep at night . And when that continues for weeks at a time, you need to think maybe this is more than just a stress response. Reporter dr. Vinson splits her time between private practice and a public clinic, where, unfortunately, business is booming. If i wanted to try to make an appointment, how long would it take me . Our wait list at the county clinic is around three or four weeks. Reporter so if someone is having a serious Mental Health issue, it is going to take weeks to see anybody . Unless they goat t go to an urgent care or that sort of thing because the people we have are already taking up our time. Reporter across the country, long waits are standard fair, do mostly, dr. Pender, due to a lack of money and a chronic short of supplies. Mental Health Clinics have been underfunded for a long time and theyre still underfunded. Reporter one recent study found more than half have closed programs due to covid19. While 65 have had to reschedule or turn away patients, all of which affects some groups more than others. How do you evaluate the entire Mental Health system in terms of meeting this challenge for people of color . I would definitely probably give it a d minus, if not an f. Reporter thats why retired California School teacher, valeria andrews, recently launched a nonprofit for women of color facing Mental Health challenges. She has battled anxiety and o. C. D. Her whole life, but didnt get a diagnosis until she was well past 50. Do you have a sense of what treatment is available in the Community Today . Very little. There is no availability, if you dont have insurance. And for most people it is too expensive, or there is too much negativity around it. There are not enough people that look like them to talk to. So all of those factors come into play. Reporter like Wendy Sparrow, andrews says the pandemic has aggravated her o. C. D. But even so, after the death of george floyd, she managed to take a very big step. I went to my first march, a black lives matter march. Reporter but your o. C. D. Centers around a fear of getting sick. In a protest, youre with hundreds thousands of people, and i would have thought that would have been terrifying. It really was. I did double mask, double gloves, carried my Hand Sanitizer with me. My daughter, who is a nurse, was with me. So we didnt stay long, but it was important enough to get out there and have my voice heard. Reporter an inspirational note to which all of us in this covid19 struggle now can relate. There is always hope. And i think the world needs to feel that right now, but also people with Mental Health issues, even if youre just, like, thinking 2021, please get here already. There are better days ahead. This isnt going to be forever. 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We want to be sustainable, but when you have a truck covering over 300 miles, or you have flights going hundreds of miles, its a bit more challenging. We are letting the data guide us to the best solution. Its inspiring to try to solve a problem that no one else has solved. Thats super exciting. Pauley if youve ever considered taking up chess, now is the time to make your move. David pogue shows us why. Reporter the pandemic reduced most professional sports to shadows of their former selves. But it has done wonders for one game, maybe the last one you would ever guess. Its chess. A boom is taking place in chess like we have never seen, maybe since the Bobby Fischer days. And it is happening all because the pandemic has driven people indoors, and theyre looking for something incredible, constructive, educational to do. Reporter Maurice Ashley is a chess grandmaster and a commentator for chess championships. People have this misconception that it is slow, it takes a long time, it is boring, why would you want to watch grass grow. Reporter yeah. But chess is not like that well, not all of the time, anyway. No time soon. Reporter it is definitely not like that in new york citys Washington Square park, where you can play a pickup game for five bucks, with oldtimers like David Solomon reed. He has been playing here for 40 years. When you guys go back and do the editing, i want the heading to be im the last lion of washington scare park. The last. Reporter if there is a boom in chess, theyre not seeing it here. The players just arent getting the same traffic they once did. Before the pandemic, but now it is, like, slow because a lot of tourists are not allowed to come here, as far as the flights. Reporter now it is what on a good day . 200, 250 one day. Reporter where is the boom . You probably saw this coming it is online. By june 2020, the number of people joining chess. Com had tripled from the following year. I can see my friends looking for that competitive vice to continue in my life. And i found that through chess. Reporter one of the new members was graduate student richard hamilton. Youre playing in countries that the average american may not be up. Reporter but the chess explosion isnt just people playing it is the most Beautiful Mate ive ever seen. Reporter it is also people watching. Ooh, ooh chess has been around for over a thousand years, and people are starting to watch at explosive rates now. Reporter as a teenager, Alexandra Botez won Six National Titles in both canada and the u. S. Today at 25, she makes a sixfigure income playing chess live on twitch, a website where you watch entertaining gamers play video games. And g3. Reporter but in the pandemic, chess is one of twitchs Fastest Growing spectator sports. It is very high energy. Youre yelling when you lose a piece, youre excited when you win. Sometimes people will put bets on the line. It is much more interactive. You feel like youre actually watching a kind of sport. Reporter at one point you threatened to shave your eyebrows. I need to get 2300 because this aint going to be a good look. I said if i didnt reach