Maybe I should have took the time to put this into the original post, This attention seeking lady was amenable, flirty ( although at about 17 stone @ 5 foot high, not attractive to me ) conscientious enough to worry about her mum not finding out about what she had done & a whole list of things that told me she didn't mean her attempt at deliberate self harm. She was treated with respect & dignity throughout but the end story is, she has wasted mine, my crew mates & the A&E's dept's time because her actions were entirely avoidable. OK she is pissed off at a mans response to her affection & chose to once again, kill herself, something she is becoming really good at cos she has attempted it so often. Her course of action is once again innapropriate & misguided by chasing 999 to fix her problems. We can't do that for her, but we are there for her picking up what the other agencies have missed. If I seemed a bit blase about this lady it's because she is another regular who wastes our time & resources by just being there for her when she rings 999. It's not entirely her fault granted but those folk who are gonna take their own lives rarely call 999 whithin seconds of their attempt. It gets a little more than frustrating to turnout to the same folk with the same call to the same address at the same time of day time after time. Try it, you will see what i mean. Totally different to the call to the heroin overdose on the 4th floor, no lift & he is in respiratory arrest. You maintain his airway & resps by opa & bag valve mask, hit him with some narcan then get told to feck off as he regains consciousness cos his £10 hit has just gone down the swanny. You just saved his life by seconds of him going over but all he is interested in is puking into his mates carpet & telling you to feck off your not needed & he is not gonna go to hospital, even if the half life of narcan is less than that of heroin. I do this job cos i like it, every day is different, I don't always make the right call on jobs but i am old enough to have enough life & job experience to know when someone is taking the piss out of me by being overdosed deliberately or not, unconscious or not!!