Question: Hi, I am just curious if to much iron can cause deppression and negative thoughts? The reason is that last week I took some iron supplements for a couple of days and I started to get anxious and deppressive thoughts in my head for no reason. Can this be the brains way to signal that the body has enough iron? I have Now stopped taking this supplement pills, but I am curious about this.

Hey again. The reason for my iron use was lack of energy and tiredness. I used it almost every day for about one week. It was a standard iron supplement bought at my local food store. I think the dosage was about 20 mg, which I suppose is low. After 3 days of using the supplement I got headache combined with unable to concentrate on reading. I also felt a bit restless and stress. Than some days later the negative thoughts came to my mind, and i got mild deppresion. Now its wednesday and I have not taken the supplement since friday. I feel normal again, and I can relax without having those bad thoughts in my mind. I must also say that I might have hypogonadism, and my self-esteem and strenght has generally been low the past month. That might add to my deppresion. My sleep and appetite has been bad, so has my libido. Luckily this didn't have any big impact on my social life or studying. But it has been some pretty hard weeks for me to handle this, because I am young and used to be healthy all the time. Tomorrow I am going to see my doctor, and I hope we get things sorted out.