Do you get overblown health anxiety as part of mania/mixed eps?
Last time I had a major episode, I was convinced I had diabetes. My partner has it and I worry about him, and the increased heart rate of mania, and my fasting blood sugar being at 110 (because of the stress of going into an episode) had me absolutely batshit panicking until I had bloodwork done, and all that anxiety flipped into euphoria when I felt relieved.
This episode I have been convinced that I'm pregnant because there was a time at the start of August, right before we closed on a house and made a big stressful move, when I had gone almost 48 hours without my birth control without realizing because I was stoned and had unprotected sex with my partner. I took Plan B as a precaution just in case. My partner insists that I am not pregnant but my manic brain is convinced I am despite not having any symptoms of pregnancy, only of mania. So hopefully finally doing a pregnancy test will stop the fear, because clearly it won't stop until I do it.