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The depth-hermeneutic analysis of an ero-epic conversation with a long-term user of community mental health services reveals the explosive power of the critical constitution of inner and outer spaces that might affect daily life of people considered chronically mentally ill. By means of the analogy (in- or exfiltrating) virus ↔ aggression (targeting the interior or exterior space), the collective experience of the pandemic crises opens up a possibility to empathise about and relate to the experience of everyday crisis potential. Through the experience of the threat of interpersonal spaces potentially being contaminated by a lethal virus and the resulting isolation, the significance of the impossibility of creating an intermediary space as space between the inner and outer world, becomes perceptible with our own-felt bodies. The pandemic draws a new horizon for affectively relating to the situation that people in highly crisis burdened life circumstances might face in everyday life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]