Hi Mega, yes mercury can cause extreme suicidal thoughts and did so in me. I was close to doing it many times. It's frightening because you do not know if/when you will/might take the actual step in going through with it.

I am sickened by it when I hear someone else going through this and Dr Hal Huggins said the worst thing about mercury, and the one of which makes him the angriest is the fact it can cause suicidal thoughts, and in that respect, has taken people's lives. Even if they have taken their own, their thoughts were not themselves.

I can only tell you that mercury and candida both caused this in me. Due to my memory, I do not know whether you are addressing candida or not, but it is vitally important. Yeast can create severe depression/suicidal thoughts also and MUST be dealt with. Not partially dealt with, fully dealt with. Total exclusion of sugars, yeast, wheat/gluten, coffee, etc (at the MINIMUM). From there, one may also need to reduce or eliminate any natural foods that maybe too high in carbs (depending on how severe the candida maybe). Fruit, potatoes, carrots, corn, peas/beans, and all grains, milk, honey, etc.

If you have treated candida properly and still suffer these problems, then candida may not be involved as much. Also, if it's mercury (all mercury or part mercury), you can find that trying to chelate/detox it can sometimes make the symptoms temporarily worse. Then you can get a patch of feeling relieved, only to find it comes back as more mercury surfaces again from deeper stores. It's an ongoing process because there is usually a very large storage of it and it's a slow process of excreting the stuff and then having more of it surface again, just after you've cleared some out. It's a bit like coming up to the surface and being dragged back under again.

It is very hard to know what to suggest mega. I am really concerned because I know how powerful the depression and suicidal thougths are and nobody can honestly know how this feels unless they have gone through it.

But please be vigilant on diet in the meantime, it is a big part of reducing toxicity inside your body and reducing the toxins inside the brain and other areas that can set off such thoughts. Though the cause maybe mercury, there are many other toxins that can come in because of the mercury. And one is candida, others can be from anything else, because your immune system is lowered and you are poisoned.

Supplements can be helpful too. Mainly antioxidants (vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium (if you can tolerate selenium) milk thistle) - also magnesium/calcium (equal ratios), B complex if you're ok with that, zinc etc. Fats are very important - butter, lard, extra virgin olive oil, fish oil (mercury free), flaxseed oil (you can mix it in plain sugar free acidophilus yoghurt, it's delicious). Just a teaspoon or more everytime you have some yoghurt. Should try getting up to a tablespoon or more each day.

Unfortunately one cannot psychoanalyse the mercury into "coming out" or "being nice" and for me, no amount of therapy, antidepressants worked, but they "can" sometimes help others in this condition. However, you have to be careful because with antidepressants, it's often just more chemical load onto the body and that can screw a person up also. It's advisable to try anything else before you ever do this. If you need to talk to someone, do it. Whatever it takes to keep you alive and i meant that.

These thoughts are not of yourself, that you must keep telling yourself. I remember when those thoughts lifted off me through better health, I was shocked at the change. I was stunned at what i had been living with. At first it was the candida diet that did that (no antidepressants of psychoanalysis did it). But later, after amalgam removal, when I had the mercury dumping stage, I had the symptoms again and the diet "helped", but I had to chelate the poison out of me because it was leaking out into my tissues anyway.

So it took more than diet the second time around, but both worked together in the end. My problems now are viral related and much worse because these things are no longer as helpful, though the diet I stick too, as it's the only thing that really keeps things under "some" form of control. Or I think (I mean this) i would be dead by now through taking my own life. Severe depression is not something that anybody wants to live with on a daily basis. It is terrible and often it's the "unseen" suffering that is the worst!

Take care and please try and hang in there, many of us have been there or ARE there.