This is so sad, really that people can get so involved in their own lives find a way to blame their short comings on others and not realize we all go through moments like she does but fight our way out.
I worked with a woman like this years ago and found that my mistake was to try to befriend her and when she messed up tried to blame me, over and over again.
This woman was so off the wire I was afraid to encounter or question her on her behavior, 3 times she tried to get me fired for saying or doing something at work when I was on vacation.
She was sick some how , had no friends and I did not want to cause her grief.
So me with my stupid idea was she needed a friend found myself in a world of shit but still managed to straighten out the problems at work and , never jacked her up or even questioned her. Just went along as nothing had happened.
My fault, I should have at first incidence pulled her in front of witnesses in to the locker room and put the hammer down on her verbally. To keep my job I made sure we 2 were never alone and I made sure there was one woman that I did not get along with in ear shot., as they did not like me why would they stick up for me ?
But I still welcomed her to sit at the table in the lunch room and from time to time would drive her to and from work never asking about the reasons she had lied about me. She was SICK and we all knew it.
Her poor husband also worked with us, she was constantly complaining about the guns he owned and how afraid she was of them. She was she said scared silly of them, had no idea how they worked and if her husband left one on the toilet tank she had to pee outside.
Came the day at shift change my sons girl friend came in in in a panic, seems this woman went for a drive with her husbands hand gun and blown off her head.
This woman was ill, as we all knew but to this day we all wonder if she shot herself.
Never know about these people we meet in life and feel sorry for, Mother was right, she told me that when one meets someone with a hard luck story to back off for a while to see how they handle their lives. It may be you that gets the shaft.