What is Decompensating?

Compensation refers to people who are born with physical or psychological deficiencies and social functions that are caused by birth or birth, and are compensated by direct or indirect and alternative methods on the other hand. For example, blind people can use hearing and touch to identify things; people who lose their social functions due to disasters can be compensated by means of pre-insurance and after-the-fact relief to restore their social functions. Appropriate use of compensation has positive significance for maintaining the healthy operation of the society. Improper use will also be counterproductive. ^[1]

Because of certain physical or psychological defects or unwillingness, the ego has made special efforts to develop other characteristics to make up for their own defects, so as to alleviate inner anxiety.

Compensation refers to the use of one's other strengths to compensate for defects in one area. For example, deaf people can use eye observation instead of hearing, and gestures instead of language to convey thoughts and feelings; blind people can use hearing, touch and other capabilities to identify various objects and understand people's mood. ^[3]

There are two ways to compensate: When an individual is frustrated, change the behavior direction and replace the failed action with another behavior that can obtain success. That is what is usually called "promoting strengths and avoiding weaknesses". For example, Zhang Haidi is physically impaired. Although she has lost many chances of success for normal people, she has become a translator and writer with her best efforts and obtained a master's degree in philosophy. Zhang Haidi's academic achievements compensate her for her physical disability. This compensation method is to make up for the deficiency of a certain ability by the individual's other highly developed ability. Strive to improve and improve its flawed ability to make it perfect. For example, the ancient Greek speaker Demusny stuttered and was ridiculed, but he vowed to work hard to change himself. He practiced speaking with a mouthful of stones every day, and finally became a famous speaker. Therefore, compensation is an effective way to overcome frustration.

The sour grape psychology refers to a defense mechanism that excuses one's unreasonable behavior and maintains its self-esteem by depreciating the value of others and other things. It is based on a story in Aesop's fables, where the fox couldn't eat the grapes and said the grapes were sour. This psychology is a typical manifestation of the role of ornamentation (see the article on ornamentation). If a person often maintains self-esteem by degrading others, he will not be able to be aggressive and even be left behind. ^[4]

The phenomenon of slowed or hindered livestock under certain conditions, returning to normal and accelerating growth. Inadequate nutrition or other adverse factors can slow down or hinder the growth of livestock. If such adverse effects are not serious, after the normal feeding conditions are restored and the nutrition level is increased, the growth rate of livestock may be accelerated on the basis of returning to normal, and after a period of time, Accelerating growth over time is likely to catch up with normal-growing animals. During the period of growth retardation or obstruction, in order to maintain their lives, domestic animals often use the nutrients stored in the body to consume cell contents. When compensating for growth, the content of the cells is mainly replenished, not the regeneration of the cells, so the body weight of the livestock recovers quickly. However, there are certain limits for compensatory growth, and often it does not reach the adult weight necessary for normal growth. Generally, the shorter the time when the growth obstruction appears, the greater the possibility of complete compensation; the earlier the time the obstruction occurs (such as in the nascent stage), and the longer the duration, the deeper the impact. When growth is hindered, the fastest growing part of the animal has the deepest impact and the ability to compensate for growth is the lowest. Prolonged severe undernutrition or other adverse factors will lead to permanent growth retardation or hindrance during the growing period that the animals cannot compensate for. ^[5]