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Decompensation.
I don't know if what you had is this, but this is the more accepted term (or was at one time) for when compensating defense mechanisms fail. As in heart attacks, when the heart muscle attempts over time to compensate for damage, and ultimately fails.
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Now if thou would'st
When all have given him o'er
From death to life
Thou might'st him yet recover
-- Michael Drayton 1562 - 1631
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