Hi JoeD, sounds exactly like me. Same thing happened (re fear). I am very sorry to hear of how this has turned out, but no life is "not meant to be", though the circumstances are obviously unfortunate.

What diet are you following? How are you treating candida (if at all?). Mercury can do this yes, but so can yeast and combined they can cause a real nightmare of these kinds of symptoms.

It is great you are chelating like this with the ALA, which will be working on organ mercury and also unfortunately ALA does not suppress emotional symptoms, but often worsens them. So that's why some people find taking it WITH DMSA can help. It depends on each person.

Sorry if you are already on a good strict diet and treating yeast. But if you're not, that is very important.