The thought of mercury does not cause anxiety. It's mercury that causes lethal anxiety.

Exactly. I became symptomatic a few weeks after getting a thimerosol-laced flu shot. I had been in very good health - physically and emotionally - before that incident.

A psychopharmacologist I saw to help me with my headaches, vertigo and autonomic blunting (I can't feel anything but gross stimuli) did a checklist for OCD with me. One of the 'signs' of obsessiveness is believing that toxins are affecting you.

I never saw him again. I find it infinitely more plausible that toxins THEMSELVES can cause OCD, and that dealing with them as best as possible is the only way to health.

He also told me to stop researching things online. Thanks for that advice. Ignorance is bliss, right? Worrying about mercury is a sign of neuroticism, right?

I'm tired of being more logical and realistic than the professionally trained physicians I've been paying to see.