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- verb medicine, psychology, of a bodily organ or mental state To
deteriorate in function due to an inability to invokenormal defensive mechanisms thatcompensate forailments and otherstresses .
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Examples
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Osadca's psychiatrist said he'd be likely to "decompensate" if jailed.
Ottawa Sun 2009
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However, with the time, the bladder may decompensate, and this state is characterized by increased voiding pressures and a huge increase in post void residual urine.
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Hospital beds are needed when individuals with the most serious illnesses like schizophrenia decompensate and need to re-establish, often with medications, contact with reality.
DJ Jaffe: Hey, Andrew Cuomo: Eliminate the NYS Office of Mental Health 2010
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Some will survive safely but many will inevitably decompensate, commit crimes, and wind up in jail.
DJ Jaffe: NYS Senate voted today to not help mentally ill, not keep public safer and not save money 2010
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Some will survive safely but many will inevitably decompensate, commit crimes, and wind up in jail.
DJ Jaffe: NYS Senate voted today to not help mentally ill, not keep public safer and not save money 2010
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So that dichotomy, that -- that, probably, a need to overcompensate for this deep insecurity could contribute to that whole power control debate that we're having right now, if that was really part of his personality that it caused him to decompensate, if there was a confrontation between him and the victim.
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MESERVE: The airlines are expected to decompensate for the lack of passengers by cutting capacity, perhaps by as much as five percent or 10 percent.
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"'[W] atch borderline personality decompensate over course of two hours' isn't on my to-do list anywhere, but I can't un-know what it looks like now."
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Young people typically do very well until all of a sudden they decompensate.
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She's trying to keep those emotions in check, because, if she shows too much emotion, she will decompensate.
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