How much do you think you'd need to get out? (Asking, in a kidding way, as a Californian who is tired of these memes about how it's bad to live here when you're just describing any major urban center in the world.)
Edit: you're not wrong about the challenges, it's just that they're not unique to California.
In 10 years you haven't made any professional connections who would want to work with you again?
That is the single best avenue to other jobs: foot in the door through someone you have worked with who can vouch for your professionalism and ability.
If you're not making those connections, something is wrong. It could be the kinds of jobs you've taken, eg: if they're all solo contracts and you don't interact with anyone on anything other than deliverables. Or you are taking roles where your output is used only by a small sunset of the company or something?
If you're taking reasonable roles and have decent interaction with co-workers and no one is willing to refer you for a job, then you need to think about what your relationships are like at work and why they aren't positive enough.
If this was genuinely a psychological issue for her, she should own up and say as much. She allows it slightly in some of her comments, but doesn't say definitively.
I understand people want privacy, but she invited the news to cover her and she claimed this was all due to the vaccine.
She cost other peoples' lives with this when she allowed herself to be used by the anti-vaccine movement.
I hope she continues to heal and find a good path in life, but I was around for this and I remember the way she presented it all to the news and the video of her walking normally off-camera. I do not hold her as blameless in all this as she seems to hold herself.