Repetitive thinking is probably about the first symptom that I had after my first shot of rhogam (vaccine containing mercuring). It has only been in the last six months or so that I have made the connection.

Prior to that shot of rhogam (in my early twenties, I am now mid thirties) when I used to drive my car etc I always used to listen to music as I was driving and not particularly thinking about anything in particular. A week or so after that shot I couldn't cope with listening to music anymore. It is not that I disliked it but more so because I became obsessed with my own thoughts. I would think about the same thing over and over and over. It would be something really stupid like a phrase or what I had to do the next day etc.

After thinking about it again and again I would think why am I doing this? Then a few minutes later I would start thinking about the same thing again and again all over again. AAAAhhhhh.

I must admit that I have become a lot better at handling this situation. I seem to be able to stop myself after some time of repetitive thinking. I guess just knowing finally what the issue is, MERCURY!!! allows me to make some better judgements.

On the upside though!!! If mercury is responsible for repetitive thinking it has helped me enormously with learning foreign languages. I guess that I have always had a flair for learning languages and mimicking tones and sounds. When I am learning a new language withoout even consciously thinking I repeat the foreign words over and over in my head and have an uncanny nack therefore for memorising these words and phrases.

Even, though I may remember all these languages I don't remember putting the leftover dinner in the pantry instead of the refrigerator!!!

Rachel