Imagine you are in a small, tiny closet that is literally skin tight, and you also have several bleeding knife wounds. The closet is on wheels and its mobile. You’re also very claustrophobic and experienced quite damn bit of trauma so they’re literal triggers for you.
You’re also someone who’s in public service and wired to help people. You have no idea when this will stop, and you will remain alive but barely, and the closet is the only thing keeping the knives in so they wont slide out and have you start bleeding uncontrollably until you die. It could be anywhere from a few days to a few months to a few years to forever. You cant go home or to work or even distract yourself with a meal, your choice of comfort, so all you can do is focus on the pain and the terror.
This is what happened to kara this past episode. How well do you think she was thinking when all of this happened