I've also read that magnesium helps OCD. I started taking it in the summer, although I got oxide, which I believe is supposed to be the least effective.

Lately I've been rethinking a lot of my OCD (which I should say is self-diagnosed). Tic like symptoms are said to often be a symptom of OCD, but I'm thinking that the tics and the anxiety are two different manifestations of mercury toxicity rather than OCD.

I don't know if this will make sense to those who don't know much about OCD, but I've lived with this condition for 20 years so am very familiar with the different aspects of it. These are:

1. Conscious compulsions to releive anxiety i.e. if sonmeone switch the light off and on ten times, the house won't go on fire. Even though the logical brain tells the person that switching the light on and off won't make a difference, the anxiety is not relieved until they switch the light off and on. This relieves anxiety for a while, until the next terrible thought occurs and another ritual must be performed.

2. Tic compulsions - involuntary counting or moving of part of body or blinking.

One is conscious response to panic attack and the second is unconscious.

I do believe there is "some" ability to control the former, but it is acutally very little because the body goes into panic attack and the mind finds a way to relieve that. I thought I had gained control over it by the time I was 18, that I had "pulled myself together" and not engage in ridiculous rituals, but now I believe it was the removal of my braces at 15, stopping eating seafood and no longer getting fillings that reduced my level of toxicity within 3 years so I was no longer intoxicated to do all this stuff. Even now I can get the compulsion, but I don't get the urge as strongly to act on them and I can fight the urge if the panic attack isn't too great.

Regarding the second, however, I have very little control over it. This year, since I had treatment on a mercury filling, it has been very bad. The only thing I have found to help is alginate and avoiding sulpher foods etc - effectively treating mercury toxicity.

Therefore, in my humble opinion, OCD is the response some people have to mercury toxicity and the various symptoms are those of mercury toxicity. I won't know for sure until I have the fillings replaced. If I get better then I will know it was for sure the mercury. I read only the other day of a man who was cured of OCD when he was treated for mercury toxicity. Some people don't have the fillings, but they had vaccines and eat fish.

Modern medicine, however, treats OCD with drugs to suppress anxiety and increase serotoning and therapy. I don't know what the success rate is, but generally OCD is incurable and a person can expect to have it their whole life.