- While your remark might be taken as an overstatement, I think there is something to the observation that O’Donnell’s personality has changed noticeably since she first started her day time talk show. Her behavior has become more erratic and unpredictable and her outbursts more frequent, intolerant and extreme. She seems to see conspiracy everywhere which is a sure symptom of someone suffering from a persecution complex, or worse.
I would guess that there are events in her personal life which are putting great pressure on her and she lashes out from fear and insecurity. Unless she takes the pressure off herself and withdraws from public life, I see a stint on a funny farm in her future.
I think that she is “circling the drain” with these fits and attacks that occur at the slighest provocation. Or it is just that her view of the world is so fragile that the smallest challenge to her point of view shakes her to the core. A “Stalinist” paranoid behavior.
She is not a happy woman.