Anxiety is not a common symptom of depression in bipolar disorder, but it frequently occurs alongside it. Patients often experience a persistent feeling of anxiety without being able to pinpoint the source of their fear, which is known as unspecified anxiety.
This type of anxiety in bipolar disorder tends to be chronic, with its intensity fluctuating over time (referred to as free-floating anxiety). Many patients report that they feel this anxiety manifesting somewhere in their bodies, such as in the chest.
Internal anxiety can be felt generally – without a specific location of this ailment – and the patient may experience this problem in a specific place of the body. The most common complaints are a feeling of internal anxiety in the chest or a feeling of internal anxiety in the abdomen. This problem can be both transient and quickly passing, and patients can experience chronic internal anxiety.
