What can you do when you deal with people who have severe delusions of grandeur and psych issues?

Question:

OMG, there's this crazy girl at work who's a severe nymphomaniac with extremely heavy delusions of grandeur. I just read her myspace, and oh man, I just confirmed how nuts she is. On her page, she makes statements about herself and her role at work I know are really reaching, crazy, exaggerated, misleading and revealing. I don't know if she has issues from her childhood, but I think she needs help.badly. She is to the point where I think she is just irrational.

What can you do to cope with people with huge delusions of grandeur, narcissistic complexes, especially unfounded ones, etc. etc.? Are they problems stemming from childhood abuse and inadequacies? How can you talk to them and suggest such attitudes are unhealthy and potentially harmful and regressive, developmentally?

Perhaps she is just naturally imbalanced and incapable of being helped? What are your experiences with dealing with these people?

Answers:
If you can keep work at work and do not entice her into extra conversation all the better. Try not to figure this out it is not worth the trouble. Just let her be.You can't fix every thing so don't even try, sounds like a can of worms that has been in the sun, don
t open it.

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Sure fire cure? Set her up for a fall ,and give a gentle push.

are you sure she is the one that needs help and not yourself ? There will always be people we can't work with, just like there will always be folks you can't help. First consider if this is effecting your work and is it something you can bring up to your manager. If it is, then best your concerns be filtered thru that person than yourself. Venting your frustrations can only cause greater strain in the work place. Besides, by the sounds of it you are not the closest of pals.

On thing you also have to consider is how much faith you put on the myspace means of defining one's self. A lot of people present themselves near or no where near their true self. It is just the same as bragging to set yourself from the crowd (though not necessarily in the most positive of ways). Perhaps she just likes attention, in which case she is getting it from you.

If you are really concerned about what her state of mind is, ask yourself why. are you truly concerned? or perhaps are you simply appalled at behavior you would not elect to exhibit? If you are concerned for her welfare, then try and get to know more about her than what is on her myspace and see if your opinion of her is justified.

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