Cassandra Poggi, a victim of domestic violence and advocate for those in the midst of domestic violence, prepares dinner with her housemates, Ruben Barrenechea and Bryan Campbell, obeying the stay-at-home orders issued by California Gov. Gavin Newsom. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

Cassandra Poggi gets anxious in small spaces. She feels trapped when she’s told where she can or cannot go.

It transports her back to a half-bathroom in San Francisco, where three years ago she watched her own blood splash the floor with red as her boyfriend beat her so severely she thought she might not make it out of that small room alive.