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Originally Posted by PokerBob
You seem to know quite a bit about this stuff. In your opinion, what are the odds that Brandi (or someone who exhibits the same symptoms, for sake of argument) does serious physical harm to herself or someone else (assuming she doesn't receive any kind of treatment/therapy and is left to her own devices)?
Comparatively low. OK, not low at all compared to the general population, but I don't think it's the major risk that women like Brandi face. It may have been you that has pointed out previously that her apparent self-destructive behaviours (such as self-mutilation, attempted suicide, etc) are actually more explicable as attempts at extended manipulation. So she does it after she's blown thousands of newhizzle's money, or she does it when Brandon dumps her. It's usually an attempt to make them feel sorry for her and persuade them to do what she wants them to do. Of course, sometimes they can miscalculate and screw up.
I should also say here that I've also lived with a woman who fell into this category, and she took her own life. However, she also had psychiatric problems, and there was no mistaking her intent. She'd never made previous attempts. She made arrangements for the care of our five year old son, and did it at a time when she knew that she wouldn't be disturbed for several days, then took a large quantity of alcohol and pills, and left a note stating her intentions and the reasons for it.
So it isn't no risk at all, but I believe Brandi's probably more at risk from others than she is from herself. She's been fairly fortunate over the last year or so, because she's been hanging around a bunch of fairly benevolent people who don't want much from her other than to have sex with her.
As she burns down those bridges, or simply gets older and becomes a less desirable commodity, she's much more likely to start moving in circles that aren't quite so benevolent. At that stage, the prospects of her falling foul of some abusive pimp or some mysogynistic john start to get increasingly high.
Women like Brandi, with what can appear to be an apparent high sense of self-worth (in reality, just another coping mechanism) tend to bring out the worst in such men -- who are always around on the fringes, or even at the centre of any commercial sex scene. Insecure about their own sense of masculinity or self worth, they're often obsessed with the need to 'bring a bitch down a peg or two' -- a tendency that's occasionally been apparent in these threads from time to time, though its mostly understandable here because it's people engaging in rhetoric in response to her poor behavior and her manipulative tendencies.
However, when you have that same tendency in the hands of a violent sociopath who may have suffered at the hands of a Brandi in the past, and is determined that he's never going to suffer that sort of indignity again, then there's an extremely high risk of some extremely bad **** happening.