I’m not so sure she is dealing with Psychosis. Kelly is aware of what she’s doing, and has for years at this point. She gets high off the pain and attention, she doesn’t care how much it hurts to tear those pants off at the end of the day because it just means more chances of infection. Sorry to be so harsh, but she irks me. She’s a classic case of extreme personality disorder, I don’t doubt she feels absolutely nothing.
I’m tired of the hug box Reddit has become. You could post a picture of (not to be OT) Tina with her dead animals over and over and they’d still pity her. They could easily come here and read this thread that shows how skeevy and gross Kelly is, the fact that she’s lied about extreme trauma (fucking a dog and eating it after, anyone? A cult and abusive imaginary pimp?). I don’t doubt she hasn’t had the best life, but fucking hell- none of her other family members are this insane.
Oh no, I don't think you're being harsh--- I completely agree. She irks the fuck out of me in a way I can't explain. Part of why I like watching her is because I find her medically/psychologically fascinating (real-time abnormal psychology is a true mindfuck in so many ways). I think she knows what she's doing to an extent, but there's something "missing" in her brain. Of course she has a personality disorder, but it's just hard to imagine what really fuels that absolute, unrelenting drive to do shit in the way that she does. Lots of the people in this section are obviously addicted/obsessed with attention (and/or spite, not growing up, etc) but you can get loads of attention without going to the extreme she does. You can easily fake being sick and get sympathy without
literally shoving razors into your snatch.
Psychosis is very complicated and can manifest in a
huge variety of ways. Her being potentially psychotic wouldn't negate an extreme personality disorder, either.
But... Perhaps psychotic isn't exactly the right term, it's just the... logical thing my mind would go to. For instance some psychotic people are aware that most people don't wander around mumbling incoherently about radio transmitters aliens put in their teeth, but they also "know" those transmitters are there goddamit. Yknow what I mean?
She most certainly is delusional. It's not that she necessarily thinks the stories she makes up are "real", she can't even keep up with them consistently. I think her delusion is that she thinks all of this is explainable, understandable, makes sense to people around her--- and of course some people fall for it because they can't imagine why the fuck someone would lie about such horrible things. Or that someone would continue to harm themselves in such a hardcore way (but not trying to kill themselves, or not "relieving stress" through self-harm, which is much more common). She's got a huge disconnect from reality, even if most of it is in fact just based on an astronomical drive for attention.
I'm not trying to "diagnose" her, as I think that's better left to a real doctor, but I do think it's unfortunate that someone's brain could be this way, and that the main "value" of her existence (and its documentation) could provide a lot of insight into Munchausen's, malingering, self-mutilation, abnormal psych and of course wound pathology.
I hope this isn't coming across as "oh poor Kelly, she's mentally ill and traumatized". For me it's more like "this is horrible enough that it shouldn't exist, but it does, so it should be studied".
@Mother Longlegs - Who is Tina, Btw? Dead animals? Oh no...