Ecstatic-Bug1441

Hi Professor and thank you very much for doing this AMA. In my circle of friends and acquaintances I observe this special reaction to the pandemic: many seem to reinvent themselves in sense of trying to do things they always wanted to, but never did. Some of my friends went back to university, some went in to Arts, some broke up with their SO and so on. Is there a scientific term for this phenomenon?

Thank you very much, this makes sense. So somehow it is related to coping in sense of overcoming trauma. I was also wondering if these friends who initiated those big changes were more resilient in the first place than other friends (who remained in their, maybe unhappy situation) ?