Beyond hospitalized patients, part of coping is awareness about how to take care of the psyche turning off scary TV coverage and reading a book, going out for a quiet dinner, anything to temporarily cut the stress, says Dass-Brailsford, the disaster specialist.

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Each evening we had just enough to prepare fresh lobster tidbits as an appetizer before going out to dinner, and we had a feast of two or three broiled-and-buttered tails for each one of us on our last night.

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