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.