"Coping with these kind of impacts if you're dealing with significant affects on your agriculture or your water supplies, your infrastructure and also trying to develop new kinds of energy approaches, for example--that's going to take long term investment,"

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Or if you have to take days off to play host, double up on workload either before or after their visit, so you're not coping with lost income as well.

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The first is that if you really feel that you're having difficulty coping, then talking to a professional, even a few times, can be reassuring.

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