I never did, but now I am beginning to think it's responsible for my anxiety disorder. I was always an anxious person, but never had OCD until after they started putting in the fillings when I was about 9-10 (I can't remember when I had the first one, except it was before I left primary school at 11).

By 12 I had constant anxiety. My whole life was one long panic attack. I spent almost all day involved in some ritual, either mental or physical. It was hell. OCD is caused by neuro transmitter problem and mercury interferes with neuro transmitters. It seems to me quite obvious it was the cause.

I never ever thought it could be due to fillings. At the moment I am really in "limbo" over this. If it is was the fillings - and they just kept putting more and more in - silver for the black, white for the front - plus braces - then I just feel so, I don't know how I feel, angry, sad. All those years of suffering, my lost late childhood, could have been prevented.

I don't suppose there is any way I could prove it was the mercury, if it was. At first when I heard about this, then I felt that it was done in ignorance, I could forgive that. But what is making me more angry than anything is the way no one in the government, mainstream dentists or medical community is facing up to this. That's what makes me feel like I would sue them if I could prove it, because I will never ever get my late childhood or teen years back.

I heard that friction of metal can increase problems with mercury, which might explain once my braces were finished with, I got a bit better. The anxiety got better, but mostly I learnt how to deal with it better. I never had drugs for it. I didn't trust what was in them and didn't want to live like a zombie. That's what I think doctors are today, legal drug pushers.