Two thoughts.
First, it is possible you didn't see her at all - that nobody has seen her in a very long time, because she snapped under the strain and became psychotic. So it's all a "survival" act, whether in captivity or on television to her, and she'll never get out of that surivival mode.
Second, if my first thought is NOT true, then you are seeing EXACTLY how someone would HAVE to be if they were going to come out of such hell sane. Think it through - facing difficulties, psychologically and emotionally "processing" them, is usually optional in life, because the things that happen to people are not, usually, all that traumatic. The pissing and moaning is huge, but the ACTUAL trauma is usually not. So most people "play" at facing things, deep down inside.
But when things ARE really bad - really, really bad, insane bad, killing bad, with nowhere to turn, then you do it right, or you die. Die through physical death, die through insanity, it doesn't matter - you get it right, or you die. And if you have to endure such a status of trauma reality processing for a prolonged period of time, it changes you. It becomes a spiritual exercise on the level that renunciates and even some saints go through. And you are NOT the same person when the testing ends - you have literally been purified by fire, when personal honesty, between you and yourself and God, was the ONLY thing that saved you, for a LONG time.
Such people become immensely spiritually strong - far beyond the understanding of what passes for normal on this Earth, and far beyond any "churchism." They're the Real Deal.
extraordinarily well-put.
But would you place, say, John McCain in the same formula?