Man, that sucks Dunedan. I was going to try to offer some advice about getting her help, but I keep coming up against this old phrase about leading a horse to water. She doesn't sound particularly interested in the kind of help she would need to get to live a healthy life.
So you can either keep her in your life, set boundaries you're comfortable with (assuming these two parts don't contradict) and hope that some day in the future she comes around or you can cut her loose, wish her the best and hope she figures shit out on her own. Regardless of which course you take, I can't imagine she'll get better without the aid of a talented therapist.
Either way, I'm sorry. It has been my experience that there are few things more emotionally exhausting and distressing than when loved ones are in harm's way. It's even worse when they seem pathological predisposed to go out of their way to put themselves in harm's way.
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