Heavymetalme, it sounds like your path has been similar to mine. Amalgam removal was my last course of action for the depression. I'm still not sure how connected it is with mercury. It's possible that the depression will lift when I get a job. (Looking for a part time one in teaching, not easy to find, and summer holidays are coming up.) But I suppose it would be nice to find that the mercury really is at the bottom of it.

I am a determined person and everything else I've tried, I've really applied myself to, but it didn't work. I sometimes wonder if it was meant to be this way, that I've been guided to this "last resort." If the other things I tried had worked, I wouldn't have had my amalgams out. Well . . . time will tell.

I think my supplement regime is good, and like I said that's probably why my body seems ready to detox. I take a living multivitamin from Garden of Life that has lots of B-vits, colloidal minerals, fish oil, vitamin C, calcium and magnesium citrate, zinc, and chromium. Recently added vitamin E and selenium. It was supposed to help with the depression LOL, and the recovery from the antidepressant. I think the mercury in my body has slowed that recovery process. I'm glad to be getting rid of it now.

I think some people come here thinking mercury is their one and only problem, and it isn't always. They perhaps need to do some further searching. I feel lucky because I've been down that road myself and I think I've eliminated just about everything else that could be plaguing me, apart from lifestyle as I said. I'm really glad I've got the diet and supplements sorted because they've put me in a good position to do a detox. It sounds like you are using similar detox agents to me, so let's both keep fingers crossed <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Bex, thanks for the detox details. I didn't know what to expect when I started, but a week of deep depression has been unpleasant. Still, I think there's enough reason now to hope that it's the get-worse-before-you-get-better scenario.

What is your diet like, then? What drove you to those potatoes? You said you were on varius drugs in the past; it could be a possibility that you are experiencing lingering effects of that too. I belong to another forum just as full of pain and suffering as this one, but it was caused by psychotropic drugs. For all the supposed wonders of modern medicine and science, those in whom we place our trust have the power to really devastate lives.

You resist those potatoes and I'll resist the chocolate, deal?