What I don't get is why the initial report said her body was found 'wedged in a water tank' and now the story has changed to her body being found floating face up in the water.
If she had just dived on in, why would they need to cut a hole in the tank to get her out? Why not just drain the tank and go in and retrieve the body?
Maybe someone has already answered that one, sorry if I missed it.
Another thing I noticed is Elisa's gesture in the elevator video right before her one last attempt to take the elevator down. She puts her hands up beside her head in a gesture that I've seen people do when they have heard enough in an argument. Its a common gesture that people make before walking away in exasperation, they motion as if about to cover their ears as they walk away. It basically says to the other person "I don't want to hear any more of this from you. This argument is over, I'm not going to listen to it or speak to it any more"
see what I mean at 1:26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tma5vPe6EQ
It appears as though she could be arguing with an imagined ghost.
If she truly is bipolar, she could have a split personality (MPD/DID) with alter personalties or identities present in her mind, and a schizophrenic
tendency to 'hear voices' and carry on arguments between the differing 'alters' in her mind, which is said to be commonplace for people with the condition.
Please bear with me , I will try to be brief and not bore you all with an overly lengthy analysis. This could be important though.
The way she pressed all those buttons could have accidentally jammed the elevator open or triggered a security feature which prevents people from
sabotaging the elevator by pressing multiple floors. Maybe the elevator is equipped with a weight sensor in the floor, and if too many floors are pressed in a nearly empty elevator, it senses the emptiness of the elevator by weight, and the elevator is programmed to not move in that event.
Could this be an option in places where pranksters habitually play with the elevator to victimize others trying to use the elevator? The elevator freezes service automatically for the offender of that particular body weight. If someone of another weight enters, they are able to use the elevator normally.
Or maybe the elevator just jammed due to some odd combination of button pressing.
The reason that I mention this is that the elevator's freezing seems to have really spooked Elisa.
When the door does not close she immediately peeks out to see if anyone is out there holding the button and keeping the elevator door from closing.
When she sees no one there, she may think its an invisible person holding it, and she gets scared, so she hides in the corner of the elevator. She seems to reason that it must be a ghost holding the elevator door button or holding the door itself. Since the ghost is invisible, she wonders if it might even be blocking the door or coming in to get her. Then she reasons that if it can 'get her' it would have to be an 'invisible man' type of entity, with a solid body which is invisible to they eye. If it is solid, she might be able to touch it without seeing it. Hence her tentative exploration of the entrance to the elevator and then the little hop toward where 'invisible man' might be, half an attempt to defy the ghost by jumping toward it and see if she can bump into the 'invisible man', and half an attempt to scare it away and show that she is not afraid of it.
Her behavior is that of a little girl playing haunted house.. If she has multiple personality disorder, then one of her alters may be that of a little girl of about six or seven. Anything disconcerting or unexpected might be all that it takes to trigger her alter personality, and make her become the little girl.
She seems to perhaps begin arguing with the invisible man or ghost or whatever she imagines to be there, and then when her fear subsides she snaps out of it and realizes she's been talking to thin air. Hence her gesture of reaching for her ears in the 'I've heard enough of this' motion.
She tries once more to commandeer the elevator as her escape, and the failure at getting it to move once more seems to possibly trigger one more episode of speaking to the ghost. She goes back out , possibly again demands that the ghost show himself or to answer her and then counts off on her fingers what could be a 1, 2......3 -looking command to the imagined ghost.
Could she be saying something to the effect of "Ooh, I'm soooooo scared. (sarcastically) ....OK. you don't want to talk? I'm giving you three seconds to show yourself or answer me or I'm done with you. You've got nothing you can do to me but play your little elevator trick. One, two, three".
You can see her hand motions of counting.
Nothing happens, so then she leaves and maybe says as she is leaving something like "Nice try, ghost" , as an attempt to end the episode and calm her nerves. Her exaggerated body language throughout her dialogue with 'the ghost' suggests that she is attempting to communicate with it in every way possible. Or it could be that since she has this disorder for almost all of her life, dealing with imaginary ghosts, arguing internally with herself among alters, she has adapted to using body language to communicate with ghosts instead of speaking aloud, because in the past speaking to imaginary ghosts aloud has landed her in the doctors office etc. This could explain her odd hand and body motions, which may have included 'haunting' , 'counting' , 'challenging' etc. in silent dialogue with the imagined ghost.
The 'little girl' alter idea brings to mind this:
the above screenshot is from the original 2002 Japanese film 'Dark Water'.
[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Water_%282002_film%29[/ame]
The following insight is chilling.....
The movie Dark Waters features a little girl who is haunted by a little girl who died in the water tank on the roof of her building. The movie came out in 2002, which means that 21 yr. old Elisa would have been around nine or ten years old if Elisa had seen it when it first came out. The fllm was available in North America with English subtitles. If at that time Elisa had already been experiencing MPD with a younger little girl 'alter personality' , then seeing the film Dark Water may have been extremely traumatizing for her.
In the film Dark Water, the mother and daughter hide from the ghost of the little girl in the corner of the elevator.
For Elisa , the elevator incident may have triggered a flashback to the movie Dark Waters.
In Dark Waters, the oriental mother and daughter are terrorized by the ghost of the dead girl, which tries to murder the woman's daughter by drowning her in the bathtub. The mother and daughter only free themselves of the haunting (by the ghost of the dead girl ) when the mother sacrifices herself by agreeing to die and to join the dead girl as her 'mother' in the ghost world, so that her daughter might live. In the end, the mother is drowned instead of the daughter, becomes a ghost, and walks away hand in hand with the ghost of the dead girl. The mother's daughter is allowed to live.
So this gets fascinating when you consider what Elisa did right after hiding from the ghost in the elevator. Don't forget , Elisa may be MPD, with two identities. One a 21 year old woman (mother) and one the little six year girl alter personality. Maybe Elisa is not sure which of them she really is.
If she ever 'gets better' and rids herself of the MPD, she will have to face the reality that she is 21 years old , with one identity, and so her 'alter' personality, the little six year old Elisa, will have to go, in other words the little girl alter will have to die.
So maybe she has this internal battle going on between her alter personalities. There is the real , mortal , aging 21 year old Elisa who wants to be normal and function normally and rid herself of her MPD (multiple personality disorder), and then there is the immortal forever six years-old alter-ego which she reverts to whenever she is scared or traumatized.
Elisa has recently left home permanently, so the pretense of childhood is over, as the realization hits her that she is 21 and on her own. Losing her cell phone breaks the final bond of contact with home, and since she cannot speak to her mother on the phone, she realizes finally that she is really on her own, and that lifes circumstances will force this reality on her from then on , and that she has to start functioning as a responsible adult.
But the problem is that there are two people living inside of Elisa. The little girl is going to have to go. Maybe Elisa has to choose which one of them will live and which will die.
In the end she follows the script of the movie. Elisa will have to die (21 year old Elisa) so that the little girl (six year old Elisa) can live. Maybe little alter Elisa, in her dissociative state, and traumatized by the memory of the film, comes up with a plan to drown 21 year old Elisa.
Little Elisa is rejecting adulthood (and rejecting mortality), by killing off the adult 'alter'.
MPD Elisa may have seen her own adult sensual needs and sexuality as a nagging reminder of adulthood and mortality, as she shifted back and forth between alters.
This would explain why 'little Elisa' may well have scrawled the insulting epitaph on 'Big Elisa's' water tank grave, Latin Harry Potter style:
FECTO C**T HER SUMA
Translating from Latin as something to the effect of
'She was a total c***. actually'
So little Elisa hardens herself to the role of the killer ghost in 'Dark Water; and follows the script of drowning 'mother Elisa'
while 'mother Elisa' follows the script of sacrificing herself so that 'little Elisa' may live on.
In this way both alters are so engaged, to the same purpose:
drowning 21 year old 'Big Elisa'.
The message of the film Dark Water is that mother will live on in the after life anyway, even if she sacrifices herself to save her daughter.
If this seems out of the realm of possibility, consider that Elisa may have had a fairly severe psychiatric disorder. She didn't end up on all that medication by accident. Further, as a previous poster just pointed out , she was on hallucinogenic antidepressant medication which has been proven to make people susceptible to extreme acts of violence or self harm.
In this case it appears that it may have been a case of both. One alter inflicting extreme violence on the other, and the other alter offering no resistance in an act of self harm (suicide).