She may not have started with a mental health diagnosis. She has literally been driven crazy. We re looking at half a dozen cases where women started out in considerably better shape than they are now. Basically, you lock someone up for 23 hours a day with no contact. You use their need and their desire for a cellmate against them and refuse to allow them that contact.
Women do their time differently from men.
I don t want to ever imply that conditions for men are better or that conditions for women are worse. Those are meaningless dichotomies. For men the isolation is horrendous and people literally go nuts being so isolated. For women I would argue that it takes on an even more significant dimension because of the way that gender differences play out in society. Women often turn to each other for support and basic survival in ways that men don t do as often.