Many people who are diagnosed with bipolar disorder also have other psychiatric situations, including anxiety disorders. But when your anxiety doesn't quite fit into the definition of a specific, well-defined anxiety disorder, your psychiatrist might instead diagnose you as having? Bipolar disorder with anxious distress? Having bipolar disorder with anxious distress plainly means you have bipolar disorder, plus anxiety that interferes with your life but doesn't meet the diagnostic criteria for an anxiety disorder.
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in a person's mood, energy, and ability to function. The mood episodes associated with the disorder persist from days to weeks or longer, and can be dramatic, with periods of being overly high and/or irritable to periods of persistent sadness and hopelessness. Severe…
