One of the great dreams of humanity has been the improvement of its behavioural, affective and emotional status. Depression represents the suffering of beings over their existential course, as a point of passage between the human condition and its destiny. The attempts of psychiatry to introduce efficient and increasingly performing antidepressants represent one of medicine’s great achievements. At the same time, antidepressant overdosing may lead to cardiotoxic manifestations presenting lethal risks as consequences [1]. We hereby present the case of a patient that was poisoned with tianeptine, ingested for suicidal purposes, who survived repetitive episodes of ventricular fibrillation, electrically converted to sinusal rhythm. The GC/MS analytical diagnosis played an essential part in detecting tianeptine in the biological samples. The rapid and very competent therapeutic intervention allowed for the patient’s survival, despite further complications. A review of main tianeptine information is also presented, as this type of intoxication may have deadly consequences.
