Extreme anguish and despair. Feeling like ones back is against the wall, or ‘no way out’. Dark night of the soul.
Light at the end of the tunnel. Prayers answered.
‘For those moments which happen to some people when the anguish is so great as to seem to be unbearable. When the mind or body feels as if it had borne to the uttermost limit of its endurance, & that now it must give way. When it seems there is nothing but destruction & annihilation left to face.’