Well, I think the problems started well before she became an "adult" so there's some responsibility on her caregivers for not proving a stable and nurturing environment. That said, those aren't requisites for having a happy life. There are tons of stories of people who seemingly have it all who go on to totally fuck up their lives.
I personally think THE only way she will get better is if she confronts the issues she is dealing with mentally. Otherwise, as soon as something bad happens in her lide, she'll just go back to what she's always done and numb her pain with booze and drugs. It's clear her relationship with her dad is a huge part of the problem (she's written a song about it, blasted him in the tabloids, and recently obtained a restraining order) and her mom doing lines of blow with her in clubs does not help much either. The one person she is reaching out to right now (her ex-Samantha Ronson) wants nothing to do with her. So I feel like she's got no one. I kinda just want to slap her upside the head and tell her to straighten the fuck up. At some she's gotta realize she's living such a hollow existence. But I guess she does, hence the cutting. It's just sad.
But the complexity of human emotion means that I can feel for her plight, yet feel as you do that she holds some responsibility for what is happening. She's been given plenty of opportunities to clean her act up and she basically made her own grave. I'm pissed at the entitlement she feels knowing that she can walk away from jail time after back to back DUI's, one of which she was arrested with a full bag of coke in her pocket, and ignoring her probation terms. There are jails filled with Black men in NYS prisons for possession weed!!!
So I post about Linds out of morbid curiosity of how it came to this way, why its allowed to continue, and to see where its going.