Hi there,
Thank you for sharing spincera. I would agree that these would be called psychotic symptoms.

Here's the thing though - when I went for decades ignoring, not even wanting to learn the details of what the illness meant, and even didn't understand which symptoms were coming from the bipolar - I thought that it was just me being my unique, imaginative, tuned in, gypsy self. I wasn't 'concerned' because it was just me.

Now that I know which is random thoughts, and which are being caught in a delusion I document and I try to help myself respond by thinking not just in the moment, but by thinking what I might do on other days.

Your doctor not being too concerned in my opinion is because he/she knows it is just symptoms of your diagnosed illness and you are not over-responding in some extreme way to what you are experiencing. Also, you are taking meds and they work better some days then others.

I think these things never go away. At least that is true in my situation, I have some periods which are normal and others more extreme.

I would suggest documenting. This has helped me to remember not to get as caught up in a delusion - I realize I am experiencing something that I experienced before and it went away then, so maybe its not as extremely important as I am reacting at that moment.

I hope this was understandable, and helpful.

Best of luck to us all.