the feeling you can't get outside of to name · S4

The horror is uncommunicable at the root: to name a thing you have to stand a little apart from it, and this feeling is everywhere in her at once, in her arms and legs and head and stomach, leaving no vantage from which to describe it. She is sealed inside a state she cannot get enough distance on to convert into words, which means it cannot be transmitted to the doctor at all, only gestured at through analogy after analogy that he writes down "much too brief to correspond directly to what she'd said."