Seriously, please take some time this holiday to decompress and be with your family and friends.

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The job was so stressful that at one point in his career he drove around a golf course to decompress before going home to his family.

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Even today treatment focuses on stabilizing the patient to prevent damage from spreading, with surgery to decompress the spine and steroids to prevent inflammation and protect remaining neurons.

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I'll now take some time to decompress (FYI I'm looking for a good fat camp to lose my Groupon 40, if anyone has a suggestion), and then maybe I'll figure out how to channel this experience into something productive.

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Experts say we can't even count on vacations to help us decompress.

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When the Australian government tried to translate its tax rules into plain English it discovered that five lines of code could decompress into as many as five pages of comprehensible prose.

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