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One word that comes to mind is undo, which carries the meaning of rolling back to a point before an action was carried out. To cover the whole process, though, you would still need to use another word like fault-correction.

There is also the more general term, process, which admittedly does not specifically indicate that there was a problem. However, your general situation is covered by this word.

It depends a little on how you plan to use the term.

A word that may work for you is to atone.

verb (used without object), atoned, atoning.

1. to make amends or reparation, as for an offense or a crime, or for an offender (usually followed by for):
   to atone for one's sins.


2. to make up, as for errors or deficiencies (usually followed by for):
   to atone for one's failings.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/atone

It strikes me that you're discussion remediation or reparation.

remediation -

The action of remedying something, in particular of reversing or stopping environmental damage.

reparation -

The making of amends for a wrong one has done

I am sure others may find better answers than I, but the idea of self or auto-mitigating came to mind; the idea that problems are resolved by a party by itself.

There may be terms more relevant depending on the scenario, since "problem" can be used quite broadly:

• "This software is auto-correcting"


• "Many organisms in biology exhibit the characteristic of self-repair"

However, the ability to completely ameliorate a self-inflicted issue may be more capable than the idea I've presented, whereas my examples moreso demonstrate a system or person is merely functional in the role of detecting and resolving a problem without outside stimuli. I would be interested in other answers as well.

The clause about it being something you yourself caused is what makes this so difficult (in English), otherwise I'd recommend:

Regenerate: (of a living organism) regrow (new tissue) to replace lost or injured tissue.

You can also play around with some Latin if you have wiggle room, and either come up with a phrase, or perhaps formulate your own chimera of a word that works, even if it isn't currently defined. You may also want to look into German, too.

te ipsum: oneself, male
te ipsam: oneself, female
errat: err
renovo: renew, renovate, refurbish, repair, restore, regenerate

Just a caveat, I'm not fluent in Latin. I just Google-translated those words/phrases.

Prefix self- to synonyms of mitigate. For example self-correct or self-mitigate

If you're looking for a phrase I would say something like:

Unraveling the knot I tied myself in.

Extraditing myself from the mess I put myself in.

I would call it "damage control," which phrase can be applied to damage created by oneself or by others equally well.

The above answers are very good when applied to situations where there is plainly a "fault" or "wrong" in play. I like "mitigate" for instances in which fault is less one-sided or there is less actual culpability on the part of the mitigator. But these words don't work for a situation such as the bridge, the leg of which is upsetting the marine life--a wholly unintended and possibly unforeseeable consequence of the original (beneficial) action: the building of the bridge. In a case like this you could express the intention to "act promptly to remedy the side issue which arose as a result of the bridge project." This is short and sweet, takes ownership of the fish problem, and simply incorporates it by this reference into the larger project of building the bridge, as an almost natural extension of that project, rather than expanding its negative aspect any further. (Can you tell I've worked for lawyers? lol)

Just formalizing the comments under Kaylee's answer in an actual answer:

Cura te ipsum: A solution that is proposed, advocated, or implemented by the same person or entity who inadvertently created the problem.

"When multi-year studies finally proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that their inadequately tested plastic liners do in fact cause cancer and birth defects, the corporation's cura te ipsum was to quickly create a new inadequately tested plastic liner, which was made from a material that was almost the same as the original, and offer limited recall replacements of certain recently sold, high profile items."

There are lots of words that mean "make up for", but you're looking for one that bears a strong implication that the person making up for things is the same one who was at fault to begin with.

I like Bookeater's suggestion of "atone" for this reason. One alternative with similar meaning but less of a moral/religious connotation might be "compensate", which is defined by Merriam-Webster as "to offset an error, defect, or undesired effect".

The situation that brought me to this page in search of a term: Anticipating friends coming to lunch, we used our snow blower to clear a part of our private road that our neighbor usually clears, but has not yet gotten to. In the process, our snow blower quit running and was stuck in our neighbor’s section of the road. It’s a good thing our friends came to lunch, because they were able to help lift the heavy machine into my car. But wait a minute...if it weren’t for our friends, we wouldn’t have gotten the snow blower stuck in the first place... Is Cura te Ipsum accurate here?

THere are two terms. Iatrogenic, usually used in medicine and disaster response to mean causing harm when trying to help. The other is Unintended Consequence, referring to creating a new set of problems when solving a single problem.