Your description most appropriate...of high anxiety, the sense of panic setting in, your mind and body ensconced in a cold-sweat, nowhere to go, nowhere to turn..... breathing getting heavy, short, shallow.... the sense I have not unlike an underwater spelunker, cave explorer, finding myself immovably wedged in between a rock and a hard place within the narrowing walls that have me in its ever-tightening grip... dark, cold, wet.... disoriented... don't know, can't tell which way is up. down... the helmet light dimming, the batteries nearly gone, the oxygen tank meter way passed 'E'....... This is Obama's legacy to the nation, world, mankind, civilization... Good-bye cruel world.....Should have voted Libertarian when I had the chance, when I was still above ground.
It feels like a combination of 9/11/2001 and the financial crash of October 2008.
WOW, you captured the moment exactly.. You missed the bile in my throat, but close enough.. LOL.. VOTE.. :)