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[BrokenPromise]

Anyone have any experience with this?The environment can have a big impact on mental health.

There's toxins everywhere and in everything.

Personally, I was exposed to a high amount of lead and arsenic for years because of the environment I was in. I'm wondering have you been exposed and developed side effects?

I don't see this talked about very much and my doctor didn't seem to be concerned.

"The Effects of Arsenic Exposure on Neurological and Cognitive Dysfunction in Human and Rodent Studies: A Review - PMC" ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

[Amiwrong]

not arsenic but my blood work showed higher than normal for some radioactive thing. I don’t recall what it was. The doctor asked if I had X-rays lately which I hadn’t and never had at the time.

Arsenic would be in our foods then. Is it a forever toxin like plastic? Do you wonder if these toxins could be what’s causing so many mental health issues?

[BrokenPromise in reply to Amiwrong]

If you have a medical chart that you can access online, it will show your blood work to help you remember. Do you have an overactive thyroid? Medications and diet sometime effect blood results to, but I'm not sure.

Yes it's in our food, water and air.

Arsenic enters your blood stream and is carried to the cells in your body. Unlike other toxins, arsenic leaves your system within a couple of days in your urine. Even though arsenic doesn’t build up inside you, the longer you are exposed to it, the more it affects your cells and over time, can make you sick.

It effects in many ways and I believe it does build up in nails and hair.

Have you ever watched the movie Erin Brockovich? I highly suggest. It's based on a true story.

I do wonder, I had to get tested and I had high levels. Where I'm from many passed from cancer and mental health issues were prevalent. Our air and soil was polluted. I don't doubt our water supply was contaminated with something.

Lead and arsening exposure is linked with mental health effects and so much more.

[Amiwrong in reply to BrokenPromise]

Oh so you couldn’t really avoid it. That is scary. Yes, I saw the movie. We often think our government would protect us from such things, so sad.

Do you live there now? Where the high pollution is? Perhaps your doctor wasn’t worried because there isn’t much to be done about it anyway??

[BrokenPromise in reply to Amiwrong]

Unfortunately no, I couldn't avoid it. I was born and raised there & lived there until my early 20s.Right! Some places are worse than others.

I don't live there anymore, but visit from time to time for family.

Nobody seems worried, but it's not considered, or talked about when dealing with medical, or mental health. I've seen many doctors and mentioned this to them, they probably think I'm crazy idk, but the facts and studies are there.

[Amiwrong in reply to BrokenPromise]

Sometimes general practitioners just won’t touch certain things that they don’t know enough about. My family doctor told me that once. They will just dismiss it and focus on the things they know.

[BrokenPromise in reply to Amiwrong]

Interesting. I can understand that. It makes me wonder though, if that's why sometimes ppl are misdiagnosed.

[BrokenPromise]

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[Amiwrong in reply to BrokenPromise]

Well I guess soon enough we will be growing our own foods.

[mizzou7016]

95% of my mental health issues are created by my environment....however it's not affected my physical health too much. Everyone gets anxiety over their physical health. It's common nature...anyone exposed to things that compromise their physical health are affected by it mentally....sorry for the ramble

[BrokenPromise in reply to mizzou7016]

I agree. Thank you for sharing! 😊

[Sunrisetabby]

I am lucky not to have been exposed to lead and arsenic, but I think that air pollution, mold and dust, and noise pollution have been at least significant contributing factors to the debilitating brain fog that I have had the last several years.

There have been a number of interesting studies on these issues, such as this piece from Nature Sustainability: "We find that a 1 s.d. (σ) increase in PM2.5 raises weekly suicide rates by ∼25%. This effect occurs without delay, consistent with neurobiological evidence that PM2.5 influences emotional regulation and impulsive–aggressive behaviour. Effects are sex and age specific; women over 65 exhibit significantly higher vulnerability. We estimate that PM2.5 reductions under China’s Air Pollution Action Plan prevented 13,000–79,000 (95% confidence interval) suicides over 2013–2017, accounting for ∼10% of this period’s observed suicide rate decline. " nature.com/articles/s41893-...

But, much much more research is needed in this area.

[BrokenPromise in reply to Sunrisetabby]

Wow, amazing! And yes more research. Thank you for sharing ✨