I'm psychotic apparently

This is what Ive been told lol Now look, I know I'm crazy... but psychotic? Help me figure this one out. Heres the situation:

I quit my job about a month ago and the job I was supposed to take (wildlife sanctuary) had their funding fall through. So Im unemployed (eeep). Anyways, this girl, who was my first friend after we moved down here, has apparently been saying some pretty nasty things behind my back.

1.) she said that I'm psychotic (I still don't know why. she just said it without a reason).
2.) There is this guy who works there and they have been going back and forth liking each other, not liking each other etc... Well she said I'm "jealous" her and him and that I started flirting with him. That is completely ludicrous.
3.) she has been saying that Im a bad worker and I never did any work.

Ok. I know I have issues, everyone does. But I understand what they are and are working on them. I don't really think Im psychotic, per se. The guy thing, that actually made me laugh. And I didn't get promoted and raises over her for not doing work.

So Im really at a loss as to why she's just randomly saying these things about me. Luckily, my friends who still work there no better than to listen to her and don't hold anything against me. Does this sound like jealousy? At this point I'm done with the friendship because I always stood up for her when I would hear people talking about her. I just can't for the life of me see how I'm psychotic? lol. I would like a little insight.

people exaggerate a lot, and it sounds like she has her own illnesses to boot. Probably she turned "Salukigirl has some issues" into "Salukigirl is psychotic. I'd just ignore her as much as possible, she sounds jealous.

Psychosis is a general term for a state of mind in which thinking becomes irrational and/or disturbed. It refers primarily to delusions, hallucinations, and other severe thought disturbances.

What does that mean? Well, you're having delusions if you think the neighbour is actually a witch casting a spell on your back yard to make weeds grow. You're hallucinating if you hear demons talking to you or see them crawling across your bedroom ceiling. You're having a severe thought disturbance if you're convinced that your pet cat is crawling with a plague-like disease so you take it to the vet to have it euthanized.

I'm guessing you're not doing any of that stuff, so you're not psychotic. Petty, stupid people like to throw around psychological terms as insults, hoping they'll hurt. The key is, those words only hurt you if you let them. So long as you know that she's talking out of her as$, then she can't touch you.

No, I don't hallucinate or hear voices or anything like that.

I knew it was probably just her being jealous or whatever but I guess it helps hearing someone else say it. I hate thinking "its just jealousy" because then I feel like Im stuck up. Like people have a reason to be jealous of me. And I don't like feeling like Im attributing everything to someone elses problems. Then again, Im neurotic haha. thanks guys.

((((hugs)))) Isn't it strange how humans can take one comment by someone we might not even respect, and twist it until we can use it against ourselves to make it true? You aren't crazy, which is a layman's term for psychoticism, imo.

Many other people do have their own problems, and your identifying them (as opposed to thinking your the problem in everything) is allowed.

It's hard when you have to leave a job and don't go on to another. I had that happen too when I retired, still sort of identify with the last job but don't have anything in front of me at the moment I can latch onto. I still e-mail back and forth with my previous coworkers, etc. and hear what people are saying about me and all that.

Were you thinking of trying to get your old job back again? Your ex-friend must see you as a threat somewhere to be going to that extreme. It reminds me of when I was trying to teach my non-English T the word "ornery" as it applies to me :-) and she decided to try it in a sentence a bit later only it came out sounding like "ordinary". I told her "I'm lots of things but 'ordinary' isn't one of them"

You are so NOT psychotic. Fudge 'em. LMo's got yer back.

That's so ridiculous! This person is undoubtedly toxic...I'd stay away from her.

nah, im not trying to get my job back. she found out that i made more money than her and i think that has something to do with it. even though i worked there longer and had been a manager longer, she thought she deserved more money than me. she got her raise and is making more now than i was but is still lashing out at me. i dont know what is so threatening about me? ive never hit on her boyfriend, i wasnt going for her job, stealing her friends.. etc. i dont know what she has against me but whatever. i know you guys got my back haha