My toxic environment :-( .

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Look , whatever advantages it may have , the " lead/mercury " making-me-dizzy-woozy elements in my room and the ultra-excessive reflected/-fracted light that has me , even sleeping in a sleep mask , getting up every monring with my eyes semi-dazzled IS TOXIC TO ME ! !! !! !! !! !! : (No . The blinders won't help . It's the walls more that the light , I suppose , anyway 5 out of 7?? days that it's not heavily overcast or foggy it's like that .( There was a TV drama I saw when I was young with a man trapped in a white-walls cube , unable to get out .)
Minus those things (And with , most needed-ly a decent source of light so that reading a book at night wasn't a eyestraining exercise/difficult:-() it would be OK ~ Minus that - Really , I think I may have to leave !
It's not worth possible permanent impairment of my precious eyesight to get a room !
They , no doubt , had rooms in Chernobyl and Love Canal too .

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

Why is there lead/mercury? Is this air pollution?

...Old buildings in the US (Are you in the UK ???) often have pollutants , such as lead paint and pesticides that are no longer allowed , still in trace/remnant form in the building , things considered poisonous now that were allowed back when . As it happens , to-day's San Francisco Examiner has a story relating to this - www.sfexaminer.com/city-officials-seek- ... ties-sros/ , that was the main , front page , story on the paper edition !

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

So you're in an SRO? Some of those buildings are really really awful. After I got kicked out of my Sutter Street apartment in the late summer of 1995 due to mandated earthquake repairs (reinforcement of brick-walled buildings so that they wouldn't collapse in an earthquake), I wound up in a former SRO that had been turned into efficiency apartments. I liked that it was built of reinforced concrete and still whispered of neo-Victorian beauty-claw foot bathtubs, ceiling medallions and other trim features, etc. So, I moved in.

Then the problems started. Mice, roaches, bedbugs, overflowing trash cans, the building manager was a cokehead and would wander the halls ranting to himself, etc. Finally I had my mom drive a rental truck down from Sacramento when I knew the manager would be on a dope run, and left. I mailed the keys back to him. Then a few months later I was contacted by the property management company that the building owner had hired to clean house. The manager had stolen all the rent monies and used them to pay for dope. There were squatters in my old unit (and several others). I had to send copies of my cancelled rent checks to this company to show that I really did pay the rent.

Anyway, for people whose views of SF have been shaped by Fisherman's Wharf and Union Square, that's what lurks behind the happy face. Post-1906 SRO's once had Victorian-style wall coverings, but had to cover them with some sort of white paperboard. That in turn has several layers of bone white paint. My recommendations? Personally, one of my favorite things was blacklite bulbs. When I lived on Sutter my room's window faced the street (lucky me). So, every Friday and Saturday night, I'd turn on a blacklite bulb, open the window so that the streetlights and other city lights/noises could enter, turn on the dance music show of a local FM station, and relax. Eventually I got an internet connection (very primitive back then) so I'd surf online.

You need a clip on book light. That's what I'd use for reading. As for the lead paint, I don't know what to tell you. I used to use an air cleaner to suck the lead dust out of the air. All of these recommendations are probably beyond what you can do anyway. Just be glad you have a room. Halloween is coming up, I noticed that the drugstores are getting in blacklite bulbs for Halloween, so you may be able to find one, and maybe you can find an old lamp for a few bucks at a thrift store or on Craigslist.