ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a case of a 24-year-old woman who presents having taken an impulsive overdose of 30 paracetamol tablets. Earlier in the evening she had been drinking and ended up in an argument with her boyfriend. She returned home and thought about the evening. She felt very angry and unhappy and impulsively took the overdose. She is sure she did not take anything else. There is no suicide note and about half an hour after taking the overdose she called a friend who called an ambulance. Her eye contact is normal. She looks well. Her speech is normal. She has no thought disorder. Her mood is stable and there is no current deliberate self-harm ideation. She does not express any feelings of hopelessness. She can enjoy herself and she has plans for the future. She has no evidence of any delusions or hallucinations. She has good insight into what has happened.
