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She went mad long before her mental breakdown...

Her natural gifts led her to a quest for power and acceptance at the cost of even her own questionable morals. It then cost her her friends(at which point she became far more vicious... this was when she truly went mad), then came her realization that her father accepted her only as an underling and would always outstrip her power, which made her question her quest for acceptance. The final straw was when Zuko defeated her with his own modest powers... showing her own quest for power as a complete and utter failure as her entire Shtick since the cradle was how gifted she was... That was when her final mental breakdown happened