I was put on antidepressants at age 21, because of my symptoms. Those that prescribed them took no interest in my health at all and brushed that aside. one of the reasons was the fact i broke down crying one day (which is not like me in front of other people) and they decided I was depressed and needed meds and a psychologist.

I was just ill, but they didn't know that. I also suffered pressure headaches daily, which would build up over the course of the day to intolerance levels. I took pain killers. This is from a person that has not been a headachey person at all. I took after my father who I don't think has had a headache in his life. Yet suddenly I was getting these odd headaches (like your head being in a vice).

Then the antidepressants came onboard. At first, you "think" you feel "something" and at times it gives you a strange altered sense of reality. It felt for me that I was not myself sometimes, though it didn't alter my personality as such, I didn't feel right. There were moments where I thought it had helped a bit, but they would never last. Then the side effects would kick in. So I'd be shifted from one antidepressant to another and on it went. The side effects always prevailed, but any so-called "benefits" always left. And the benefits were minimal and I still had that altered sense of reality about me. I suffered with other sympoms too that altered my appetite, libido and other things that are hard to even explain.

They continued dishing them out to me, regardless of what I was suffering as a result and didn't seem concerned. Eventually I took matters into my own hands and stupidly did cold turkey and went off them all immediately. Nobody told me about the need to wean myself off them. Nobody told me that cold turkey from an antidepressant can apparently cause a severe dark depression.

I went off them and that's exactly what happened. I was thrown into some kind of horrible darkness and suicidal thoughts. So I spent sometime dealing wtih this and often unable to talk, but only lie on my bed in a foetal position.

Thankfully the worst of that lifted. But I was the same as ever as far as toxicity went. That's my expeience with antidepressants and I was on quite a few different ones. Not one of them helped me, but all gave significant side effects that were worsening the longer I spent on them.

However, I will also state that there are "some" who have apparently found antidepressants a life saver - for me they simply added to my toxic burden and caused other problems of their own.

I had 8 amalgams, which I believe was the culprit all along. The candida I was living with was just as bad, if not worse in the symptoms it was causing me (even if mercury was the underlying cause). The diet I went on reduced the candida and I was a happier and healthier person with more energy, better skin, brighter eyes, better hair, not as bloated, headaches GONE. I mean gone, not even a twinge of pain etc. All that in a matter of weeks. I started laughing a lot more and I was a much better person to be around. And that was only for giving up sugar, wheat/gluten and yeast. I didn't need to be quite as strict then as I do now and severely restrict ALL high carbohydrate foods. I got away with still consuming potatoes, fruit, some milk etc. Giving up the wheat/gluten was also magic. Didn't realise how much poison this was. Not just because of the gluten, but apparently wheat is treated with mercury fungicide. And anytime I cheated and ate wheat in anything, I'd get immediate toxic symptoms - I'd go very cold, get crying/salivating and shivering spells. No doubt it was either directly poisoning me, or I was succumbing to the existing mercury already inside of me.

The diet was was not a cure as I've said because the amalgams (source of the problems) were still set in place. But the difference in me was still pretty dramatic considering how I'd been before. .

Later I got the amalgams removed bit by bit over the course of a couple of years (because of finance). Got worse after last removal because of swallowing the particles of amalgam due to neglect by dental assistant and dentist. Suffered immediate tremors and headaches. Other symptoms too. Took "some" DMSA (the wrong way), but had a few symptom reliefs from that. Didn't realise that all my stored mercury was still there just WAITING to hit me further down the road.

One year or so post amalgam removal, wham. I got hit with the dumping stage. The slow leaking out of stored mercury began. That's when the nightmares REALLY started. Even the diet couldn't prevent that from happening and there was no mercy from then on. Then I had a DMPS IV (Didn't know about the warnings then). This did even more. Sadly, instead of the mercury going into the urine to give an idea of how toxic I was, it didn't. I had a urine test taken very soon after the IV (bad mistake) and only ONE urine sample. This does not apparently always give an accurate indication.

However, regardless of my test results which showed little to nothing. The DMPS had most certainly done something. It erupted so much mercury from storage that I was now left in a terrible state. From that time onwards, I then was covered in rashes everytime I heated up/sweated/exercised/took a bath. Covering me extensively from head to toe. This also occured if I took any mercury related detox products. Same thing. But increased upon heating up even further.

I spent years of going through this. Later I got on Cutler's protocol and starting making more substantial progress. Though I was still making "some" progress prior to that, Cutler's is what really got the ball rolling and started addressing the mercury more directly and without the insane and intolerable symptoms that I had experienced when trying to detox it by other means. I felt ill during the chelation yes, but not turned into a psycho.