Some days, like today, I get social anxiety, which I usually have very little of normally. I'm afraid to go outside and afraid to answer my phone or send and reply to text messages. I'm also anxious of people online and of noises coming from outside my window or my door. Can this be a part of my bipolar II? I don't think there's anything specific that precipitates this, it just sort of happens. I think it happens more often when I'm alone. It usually starts around the time that I wake up and lasts for a day or a few days. I don't know if there is any one thing I'm afraid of in other people. I have many different scary thoughts (e.g. are they judging me, are they dangerous, did I offend them, are they talking to me or about me, are they following me, are they undercover police, is there surveillance here, are they spies? Etc.)

[Trippin2.0]

That sounds more like paranioa than anxiety, and yes a few of us struggle with it a little or alot.

[wildflowerchild25]

I have what I refer to as "fragile days", usually when I am depressed, which means I most likely won't do anything involving talking to strangers or even acquaintances (such as getting gas or going to a store). But I feel for me it's more a symptom of the depressed episode than separate social anxiety.

Yours may be a symptom of a part of the cycle.

[ultramar]

Originally Posted by Mandrec

Some days, like today, I get social anxiety, which I usually have very little of normally. I'm afraid to go outside and afraid to answer my phone or send and reply to text messages. I'm also anxious of people online and of noises coming from outside my window or my door. Can this be a part of my bipolar II? I don't think there's anything specific that precipitates this, it just sort of happens. I think it happens more often when I'm alone. It usually starts around the time that I wake up and lasts for a day or a few days. I don't know if there is any one thing I'm afraid of in other people. I have many different scary thoughts (e.g. are they judging me, are they dangerous, did I offend them, are they talking to me or about me, are they following me, are they undercover police, is there surveillance here, are they spies? Etc.)

Unfortunately, some of us have several different things to struggle with, and it sounds like you have bouts of terrible anxiety.

I still do to an extent, but used to a great deal more, have trouble leaving my apartment --I have a lot of anxiety associated with PTSD.

I'm sorry you're struggling with this and hope you come out of it soon!

Thanks for the replies! I do have paranoia too and maybe this is a part of it, but this feels different. More like anxiety than fear, but maybe fuelled by my paranoia. :-) It's good to hear I'm not alone with this, maybe it's a part of my bipolar and it can be medicated.

[faerie_moon_x]

Yeah, sounds like some mild paranoia to me, too. I have a lot of it. Tons of it. I have the whole range of paranoia and it all depends on how well I'm doing and what I get into my head. It can bee like an avalanche sometimes. But the mild paranoia is constantly, always buzzing around me.