"'[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."— GreenCine Daily
Once off medication, such individuals "begin to decompensate," Young said.
Current vigilance technology is already supporting nurses in providing the safest patient care by alerting them to hospitalized patients that start to decompensate between nursing assessments.— AME Info Latest News
They decompensate and act out.— Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
I would have liked to see the heroine keep more of herself and her life together by the end of the book (one of my complaints of some of the Dark books), but she seems to decompensate as the book goes on and isn't made better by the end.
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