She is still using it for attention; what people forget is that Kelly is classic munchausen, not munchausen by internet like most of the munchies in the beauty parlour. We are not her main audience; doctors and nurses are. She wants people fretting over her and taking care of her, not just talking about her. We’re just methadone when she can’t get the real stuff.
And no, it’s not because she went « too far » and I say that with confidence because that’s not how mental/personality disorders work. I do think she has moments of clarity from time to time, I also think she probably hates her situation, but her brain doesn’t really let her blame herself, not in the way someone with a guilty conscious might. The closest you’ll ever get is « This happened because I was/am sick and there are lots of ways to be sick. » or something equally evasive.
There’s no treatment or meds for being a munchie, they don’t even know if it’s an extreme personality disorder or an actual defect in the brain (or a combination, or much of anything really) but it also doesn’t just stop when you apply logic or even tragedy, just like a narcissist doesn’t stop being a narcissist when they fail or a schizophrenic doesn’t stop being a schizo after they’ve eaten someone’s face.