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Originally Posted by Medusax
All comments welcome here, as I am asking for some insight. Long story short, I have a delightful co-worker that loves nature like I do, and is really actually FUN to be around. She is a bit dramatic, but THAT I can handle. What I cannot handle, as I am 100% opposed to such behavior, is her habitual falsehood spewing. She literally says something outlandish about someone each time I see her. Yesterday she told a mutual friend something that has no basis in ANY fact, in ANY capacity. I am a very honest person and I am going to call her on it, hopefully I won't be harsh about it. But, gossip and tall-tale telling are one of my pet peeves when it comes to people. I get the overwhelming urge to wring someone's neck when they do this. Is this a disorder? I would think it is. I would never just blurt out something like; "Sally" snuck out of her house and slept with "Jimmy". The reason I am so violently against it is because twice in my life, gossip and the perpetrators thereof have caused me trouble.Personally, I am a secret keeper. If I actually SAW "Sally" and "Jimmy" doing anything, I would just keep on going and not tell anyone. I have always been this way, so i can't imagine the opposite.
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I used to work with someone like that.At first I believed all the things she said but it became apparent very quickly that she was a pathological liar,about anything and everything.The lies she told became more outrageous as time went by,lies about herself,about other coworkers,even lies about me.They caused problems for everyone.
I started calling her out on them,saying things like "I talked to my kids and they have no clue who you are,I thought you said you knew them well and hang out with them" but all she did was come up with even more lies.And since I was calling her out on them it made her start telling even more lies about me.
The thing is,she was a really nice person and I liked her,but couldn't deal with her dramma and attention seeking behavior.I had to completely avoid her as much as possible and the times I couldn't I learned to not pay attention to anything she said.
If I had it all to do over I would have started avoiding her once I realized how much she lied instead of going through the drama of calling her out on her b.s.
I do think it's a disorder,there has to be something off for someone to lie that much.