I had a situation that sounds similar to yours. Over a number of months a
lady in a senior position, claimed a number of things, including rape, death
of her best friend, abusive relationship, etc. All at first very plausible.
However as time went on, this lady sent bizaare and inappropriate emails to
her work colleagues. She also used a pseudonym and pretended to be a friend
of herself and sent them emails. She also had another mobile phone and
pretended she was someone else. But all the while she was performing at work
very highly. However, finally one of her colleagues complained and it was
only when the HR team were investigating that they wondered if she was okay
and referred her to OH. I referred her to a psychiatrist after spending 2
hours with her (I am not psychy trained but there was something I couldn't
quite put my finger on). She had a psychosis, and could not distinguish
between reality and fiction - all were equally as real. However, she is now
much improved and has much more insight into her condition which was
onsidered acute as a result of some stressful events.
So in conclusion - if your lady has a similar mental illness and is lying -
she may not know it! Perhaps the company would be prepared to pay for an
independent psychiatric opinion and then at least the business will have
some clarification.
Dawn
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From: "Paul/Helen Martin" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [OCC-HEALTH] Lying or not?
> You don't say if your her manager or not, also should she not be offered
> an external occ health to make an assessment.
>
> Helen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sharon Jagger" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 11:15 AM
> Subject: [OCC-HEALTH] Lying or not?
>
>
> I know it's Friday but this isn't a joke
>
> I have a bit of a strange situation with one of our office staff. She
> approached a memeber of the personnel team with personal issues including
> the fact her partner had tried to commit suicide twice. She was reffered
> to me as a person she could "talk to". She confirmed the above along with
> 2 more attempts and told me each time he had discharged himself and no
> help from the hospital was offered. The reason she told me were due to his
> work stress
>
> She has then gone on over the last month or so to tell myself and other
> members of her team that the Partners parents have died (one natural
> causes other RTA) his son has fallen through a roof sustaining serious
> back injuries, daughter to one partner killed in motorcycle accident
> following this, her mother attempted to commit suicide the killed herself
> in RTA.
> Another ex-partner of his in RTA 3 days later, she escaped with minor
> injuries but daughter to her had servere knee injury requiring surgery,
> then whilst swimming(physio!!) sustained neck injury requiring ICU and
> tracheostomy. The Partner also fell last week sustaining a serious head
> injury that left him unconscious for over an hour but he was discharged
> from hospital couple of hours later with no follow up care and has been
> having memory lapses since. This has all happened in a month!!!
>
> Personnel are wanting some ways in which we can try and confirm that she
> is eithher very very unlucky or she is fabricating the issues because she
> is getting behind with workload.
>
> She tells me she has a history of depression and he GP has apparently re-
> referred her to a phyc nurse but given the way she sensationalises
> everything I don't know whether to believe her. I have considered asking
> for consent to write to her GP but on what grounds? do I tell her I don't
> believe her story and want confirmation?
>
> Has anybody ever had a similar situation and how did you deal wit it
>
> Thanks in advance
> Sahron
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