My diagnoses include bipolar, anxiety, and depression. I have thought of these as separate and my mental health providers seem to also. In trying to practice mindfulness of what I am experiencing, I sometimes recognize symptoms so I can identify which one is occurring in the moment.

But with more practice, I am finding that sometimes mania and anxiety seem to occur at the same time. Other times mania follows anxiety when my anxiety is out of control. And anxiety often follows mania for me. It sometimes seems that they feed off each other, which is harder for me to cope with. When I have talked to my mental health providers about this, they just look at me...

Any thoughts? Anyone else experience this?