Black Mold Toxicity

[paranoidpeasant]

From a my.clevelandclinic.org

Brain fog, depression, confusion, difficulty concentrating, anxiety, irritability, and trouble sleeping—these are all symptoms that can prompt you to seek help. In many cases, standard treatments can be very helpful. If treatment for mental health problems isn't working, however, it could be due to a hidden underlying issue—mold

Other research I have done has said it can cause personality changes, but that's from sites like reddit.

Toxic black mold toxicity can affect you gradually, so slowly, in fact, that you may not suspect anything.

If you already have other mental health issues... BPD, OCD, PTSD, schitsophrenia, black mold can potentially increase your negative symptoms.

Anyways, I thought this information could be helpful, here. If you do have toxic mold, and an underlying mental illness, treating the mold may have a positive affect on your mental health. Although it's not going to cure you of your mental illness, it may help in ways that can make your condition significantly more manageable.

Like one of the symptoms is difficulty with sleep... Sleep is such a big deal...

 

[hippiedeath]

Black mold is very bad for those who want to live. I try to avoid it. It's the worst of the molds. If I had to go up against any mold, I'd choose anything but black mold.

That being said, that's it.

 

[Dejected 55]

I know of places where mold was found quite by accident (one place I worked many years ago) but it wasn't obvious. People in certain offices started complaining of having headaches and such that seemed to be better when they were not at work for a while... so someone went poking around and found it in the ceiling but not visible from underneath.

So... my understanding is you could potentially experience problems without ever seeing anything that would lead you to suspect mold is present. So, then I'm forced to wonder... how would you know you were having mental issues from the mold? Like if you were slowly losing mental acuity you might not notice... and if you always were anxious and just seemed a little more anxious you might not notice that either.

I guess my thought is... "what if" this was effecting you, how would you know?

 

[Dejected 55]

This is the kind of rabbit hole I can easily fall down... because it is a thing backed by science, but it can be hard to prove. I mean, there are blood tests to see if your body is fighting off mold, and if you have mold in the house or at work, and your blood tests positive, and you have symptoms like headaches and blurry vision and rashes that go away once you begin treatment and remove yourself from the moldy environment... that tends to be a good indicator of fixing the problem.

But the mental health aspect is trickier... since they might be causing problems or just exacerbating underlying ones you already had. Also, how would you really be able to prove the mold was definitively causing the mental health? I mean, if you feel consistently better then I guess that's all the proof you'd need.

Then I was thinking... what happens if you get fired from a job because you are too irritable and have brain fog and stuff... then months later find out you have a mold problem that is causing you mental health issues... you get treated and are better... could you get your job back? I mean, IF they fired you for a mental health issue that would be illegal in a lot of places... but I'm not talking about blame or suing an employer... I'm just wondering, IF they otherwise liked your work and you suddenly changed and flipped out one day and got fired... but later found out that there was a health cause that you got treatment for... I wonder how many places would take you back OR how screwed you could be over mold?

 

[hippiedeath]

I had black mold under my bed on the wall. I was having stuffed up nasal passages, and tried to remove the mold with bleach and cleaners. Stuff is real hard to get off.

 

[Dejected 55]

The thing about mold is... if you're seeing it on your side of the wall, there's more of it on the other side that you're not seeing... and you have to kill all of it and remove all the sources of moisture that originally spawned it... and all of that can be tough and expensive.