Please talk to your doctor about that. It would be a useful bit of information for him/her to know.

I haven't had issues like yours lately, but in the past I had some irrational thinking issues outside of serious bipolar episodes. I guess the only paranoid thought I had were thinking that a particular man I know was calling my house, and then when I'd answer he would just stay on the line listening to me silently until I hung up. Such calls came sometimes once to three times per day almost every day for quite a while. I really believed it was that man, and would talk to "him" for a bit, despite no response. I was a little afraid to tell my husband because it was my fantasy that that man was in love with me. Eventually when I got past it I realized it was probably a robo caller that didn't respond, or maybe it was a call and when they realized we were on the "do not call list" they cut it.

What I struggled with more was an irrational fear that the devil was living in the dark room in my basement. How it started was when I was actually manic and saw the devil in a hallucination. At first he was in the garage, but then I was convinced he went to the basement. I was afraid to go to the basement for months. Then my tdoc convinced me to go down there, so I did. I sat on my stationary bike and only 30 seconds later I heard a loud sound that I believed was a whole nest of chicks chirping. It scared the hell out of me because I thought it was actually a sign from the devil. I high-tailed it up the stairs and slammed the door as fast as anyone could possible run. I didn't go down again for several months, even if we needed supplies that my husband kept down there. Hubby always had to retrieve them. He put up with my fear. But over time I went down little by little, and the irrational fear started to disappear. I'm fine going down there now.