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Published May 08. 2021 12:01AM
Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco, The Washington Post
As a clinical psychologist, I ve marveled at how my patients worries have shifted as the pandemic has dragged on.
Initially, when we naively believed the coronavirus would be a short-term stressor, my patients fears focused on day-to-day survival: How do I get toilet paper? How do I keep my kid from touching her face? Several months in, the focus has shifted to anxiety about decisions: Should I send my kid to school? Should I return to the office?
Now that more people are getting vaccinated and a return to somewhat-normal life is on the horizon, my patients anxieties have morphed once again, with many of them fretting about how they will reenter public life after having avoided it for a year. While they ve been outwardly rejoicing about the world reopening, they ve been privately panicking.
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Weâre living in a time when every little cough, sniffle, olfactory or circulatory problem can elicit a knee-jerk bout of worry: Is this the beginning of COVID-19? For some people, however, itâs more than a fleeting concern: Experts say and research shows that the pandemic has triggered a surge in health anxiety. In fact, health anxiety related to the coronavirus has been given its own name: coronaphobia.
âPeople are very concerned and anxious about getting COVID,â says Lynn Bufka, a senior director at the American Psychological Association and a practising licensed clinical psychologist in Maryland, US. âWe should all have some kind of heightened vigilance about protecting ourselves, but for some people, [the anxiety] is out of proportion to the actual risk and generally disrupts life.â