I've name changed for this but I'm a regular poster. Sorry it will be long but I didn't want to drip feed.
Just wanted a bit of advice about a colleague. She's been with us now for about six months working solely in our accounts department (firm of lawyers). I work for the boss as a secretary (been there 14 years). She is a lovely person, very intelligent and shit hot at her job. She's more or less turned the place around financially and is very helpful etc. etc.
When she first came we thought she was a bit odd but not in a bad way, just different but it has come to light that she suffers with manic depression and has had psychotic episodes in the past. She is completely open and honest about her mental health issues and has told us that she has tried to commit suicide in the past. She is a bit of a loner and spends most weekends at work without pay because she says she enjoys it and it helps with her depression (even though I've told her to put in overtime but she refuses point blank). She is open to everyone in the office to the point where it becomes embarrassing sometimes, she will single people out and tell them all about her sex life, about God (she is very religious), about how she is frigid, her orgasms, and recently how she has become completely and utterly infatuated to the point of her not sleeping or eating with a bloke that we use as a bit of a handyman around the office now and again.
This is the point I'm worried about. I have found out today that she has been paying this bloke to come in at weekends and do jobs around the place (moving desks, shifting shelves, moving her office around etc) and paying him out of our petty cash or straight into his bank by BACS. My boss I don't think is aware of this or to the extent of it. I asked her about it and she got very very defensive saying that she would pay back the money out of her own pocket if the boss didn't think it was justified. Colleagues are worried that she is getting him in to do jobs that don't need doing just because she is infatuated with him. She is not getting the "jobs" authorised before she asks him to do them and most of the time it's things that somebody in the office could do anyway without the need for him. She has said she is in love with him and he is her soulmate (he knows nothing of this infatuation by the way and she doesn't even know if he is in a relationship or married or what).
I am conscious of the fact that I have to tread carefully with this woman because of her condition (she isn't on any medication by the way because she says she prefers to deal with her emotions herself). Her infatuation aside, I am more worried about the firm's money she is spending to be honest without my bosses knowing about it. They really do tend to give her a free reign with the firm's money. It's a small firm and i've been there the longest so I feel to a degree that I want to protect their interests. Should I say something or should I just leave her to it and not get involved?
Last week she came into my office and said some very disturbing things like she felt like she may one day hurt somebody or even kill them. I kind of laughed it off by making a joke about putting a lock on my office door but as it happens, I didn't find it very funny.
What would you do - shall I just keep my nose out?