The Witch insinuates herself into the mind so
getting out of one’s head becomes impossible.

What is Melancholia?

“During these fits of absolute unconsciousness I drank,
God only knows how often or how much. As a matter of course,
my enemies referred the insanity to the drink rather than
the drink to the insanity. I had indeed, nearly abandoned all hope
of a permanent cure when I found one in the death of my wife.”

Quotation from Edgar Allan Poe, The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe