Hi wormwood, the sauna should definitely help you. It's not in your head by the way, there is always a cause for these mental symptoms we experience. But I used to think it might be "me" too, until I got detoxed enough and realised it wasn't. Candida can also cause many of these bizzare fears/symptoms too, as well as mercury.

Like yourself, I often have to get a member of my family to go and buy me something from a shop, depending on how severe my fear is at the time. He's used to it and has helped me for years with this. Other times, when I'm more detoxed, I feel like I can do anything and go anywhere. It's a strange thing, but the fears just disappear or lessen substantially.

So long as you realise it's not you and this is very typically mercurial behaviour. Withdrawn, social phobias, agrophobias, etc. Phobias is a biggie with mercury (candida too). Compulsive behaviours and strange ritualistic behaviour is a symptom also. It saddens me how many out there maybe suffering from mercury and have no idea and are put on all kinds of medication and psychotherapy....well, it might "help", but if anybody can show me someone who can psychoanalyse the mercury into be nice and coming out, I'd like to meet them.

Mercury is ruthless and no respecter of anybody. Whatever it does, it does and sometimes for some people the symptoms are more psychiatric, for others they maybe more "bodily"...however the brain is just another organ, so it gets sick too. I consider it all physical because of this.