I'm quite new around here. I've only recently become aware that I am most definitely bipolar. I fit the profile very well, from the quizzes and lists of symptoms on this site. However, I also find that I have symptoms which match Generalized Anxiety Disorder, (again, as described on this site.) I have always painfully shy, far beyond anything like anyone else I have known, had difficulty with confrontaion, chronic nervousness, etc. But panic attacks have also begun to present with the last few years. Fortunately, aside from the odd noise that no one else seems to have heard, I haven't experienced anything like voices. Insomnia, excessive periods of sleep, shaking, and irritable bowel syndrome (due to stress) have been recurrent problems. The whole list is rather longer, but that should give you the picture, I think. I'm basically a mess.

So, my question is whether these are separate issues and should be treated as such, or if they are all parts of the same overall problem and could be treated in that manner?