Kate Gompert on the psych ward — "Like most clinically depressed patients, she…"
Like most clinically depressed patients, she appeared to function better in focused activity than in stasis. Their normal paralyzed stasis allowed these patients’ own minds to chew them apart.
Context
The clinical aside that becomes a Carlisle chapter-concept: depression's stasis as the condition in which the mind devours its owner. He chains it forward as "chewing as a fearful image" — the rug Kate chewed a hole out of, the sounds with teeth, the Disease that chews.