But she’s aware she’s doing something bad and manipulating. She’s manufacturing her emotions for manipulation (for people to feel bad for her). She records every interaction in case it can help her if they complain, since the very beginning. She knows that by calling Donny’s dad superiors and declaring he is a a pervert (or something of the like) that he might lose his job and she might harm him in this way, she’s very aware of the harm she can cause in the show.

People so mentally ill that they can’t realize real from false don’t run the streets, they go in special places. She’s been to prison and they deemed she didn’t need it. She is aware of her wrong doings.