10ofRods
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I noted some interesting things that made it seem that TBI was very interested in the parents.
So did she really believe that the police were there?
Did she really believe they had Don in the back seat of a squad car?
Did she really believe the cartel was outside beating him?
The next day when Mary called her and asked if Don was still with the police, she said yes. Did she believe that? Or was she just acting?
She's not well. She is either abusing drugs or having other issues. She can't really believe anything.
We tend to be a rational bunch here on WS, but there are millions of people in the world whose mental issues (including addiction) completely rob them of any beliefs whatsoever. What beliefs they have, even on a good day, may be really marginal. They may also be very susceptible to other people's strong beliefs and therefore, to manipulation.
Now, I"m not saying that CW isn't somehow involved in a horrible mess in which Summer disappeared, I'm just saying that I don't think she has the mental capacity (at this time, or perhaps in general) to "believe" anything other than what her feverish brain is presenting to her at any moment.
I realize others think she's being manipulative, but I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to document malingering (pretending/acting as one is mentally ill) vs the real thing, and so far, I'm sensing the real thing here. CW's cognitive *and* emotional functioning are not good right now. Plus, she seems to be able to believe two contradictory things at once, to believe she's seen something that she did not, and may not even be able to distinguish her waking state from her sleeping state.
TBH, why wouldn't what just happened make this woman lose her mind? Why would she be acting?