HI Sara,
I have no proof of your link between toxicity and
mental illness but I do feel one can cause the other.
Such as a toxic bowel or Pesticides.
Good Luck Kyle
--- Sara <sara_arenson@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am wondering about the link between mental illness
> and body toxins.
> I have been diagnosed with "bipolar disorder", and
> generally I have
> problems remembering, concentrating, feeling calm,
> enjoying things I
> used to enjoy, feeling connected to the world...
> When I get overly
> desperate, I get into "manic" states where I wander
> around and say and
> do some pretty strange and outrageous things, my
> emotions get really
> extreme, etc. I don't want to end up in the
> hospital again, and I'm
> scared of psych drugs even though I might take them
> for a while... but
> I'm looking for alternatives.
>
> I went to see a "medical intuitive" in December, and
> she said that my
> aura was all broken up like I was full of toxins.
> Then she gave me
> over to this homeopath who is supposedly doing a
> "blood cleanse" with
> these Ayurvedic herbs and tea and these homeopathic
> remedies. She
> also suggested I get my mercury amalgams removed,
> but not because
> they'd be a source of toxicity, but because they'd
> bother my teeth as
> I aged.
>
> I've felt worse and worse lately... My arms and
> legs ache and are
> weak, I have trouble sleeping except with
> anti-anxiety pills, I am
> confused a lot of the time, I can't seem to focus at
> all, I have
> trouble urinating (though sometimes it's a bit
> better -- maybe the
> homeopathy is helping -- who knows?).
>
> I can't help thinking that I'm being taken in by
> quackery at the
> moment, but I want to be able to realistically
> assess my toxin levels
> and figure out what to do about them. I've posted
> on
> adult-metal-chelation and some of them think my
> symptoms could be due
> to mercury poisoning, but who knows? Someone
> suggested a doctor in
> the US (I live in Canada) who has had experience
> detoxing from mercury
> himself, but who knows if mercury is my problem?
>
> In May, I am going to go to a place that does
> orthomolecular
> psychiatry to see if some nutrition can't help me...
> but right now I
> wnat to learn more about toxins and how I can figure
> out whether I
> have a lot in my body, and what to do about them. I
> live in Winnipeg,
> Canada, though, nowhere near major centers where
> this kind of work is
> being done, from what I know...
>
> Is there a connection between toxins and mental
> illness? Does anyone
> have any advice from having followed this route?
> What steps could I
> take without wasting a fortune? A check-list would
> be easiest for me
> to follow, since I am so mentally impaired.
>
> Thanks,
> Sara
>
>
>
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