If anybody just saw you guys (Jinx and Shawn), you'd honestly never guess. I just see two young attractive people who physically defy what's going on underneath and that's what makes it so tragic. This is the problem wtih mercury, though a person can look unwell and pale with it, that's about as far as it gets. You walk around internally handicapped and being judged because externally you look just "fine".

I had a lot of judgements because of that, though people would remark on how pale I was, but apart from that? Nothing else really gave it away aside from my withdrawn and at times erratic and strange moods and behaviours.

It's inexcusable that this should happen to anybody because it need not happen. It was banned I think in the 1800s? Someone can correct me on that if they wish, but they re-introduced it again later on, having full awareness that they were putting the most poisonous metal known to man right under his/her nose. This is a case of mass (but slow) poisoning and because of its insidiousness and difficulty pinpointing, many people suffer but have no idea why.