Kate Gompert in the psych ward (p. 73)
It’s like something horrible is about to happen, the most horrible thing you can imagine—no, worse than you can imagine because there’s the feeling that there’s something you have to do right away to stop it but you don’t know what it is you have to do, and then it’s happening, too, the whole horrible time, it’s about to happen and also it’s happening, all at the same time.
Context
Kate's definition of the feeling, given to the resident in the interview's first real opening-up. It belongs to the depression anthology first, but the horror is built out of broken time: the future refuses to stay future — the dreaded thing is simultaneously imminent and underway, "the whole horrible time." Psychotic depression as a collapse of temporal sequence.