Chest pain and anxiety – how to immediately stop chest pain during your anxiety attack

Unfortunately, chest pain and anxiety go hand in hand. 80% of anxiety sufferers report sharp chest pain during their anxiety attack. Are you one of them? I was in. Over the years.

What is chest pain caused by anxiety feels like?

Chest pain when anxiety is usually located above the heart and as sharp pain. The pain often increases when you breath, but he did not tend to go more than a few minutes. If you click in the pain gets worse (that is the main difference from heart-related chest pain). He is usually accompanied by a pounding, shortness of breath, dizziness, tingling in his hands and feet.

I can tell you now that it's not a problem at the heart! So stop worrying about this. Dozens of people I know, I rushed to the hospital, convinced that they are having a heart attack but turned out to be anxiety!

What causes chest pain attacks during anxiety?

When anxiety attack begins, the body feels that he is in danger, produces adrenaline. Adrenaline gives you the "strengthening" of energy that are supposed to use the escape "danger". It speeds the heart rate and causes muscular collapse. This is a pain in the chest. Be caused by the release of the stomach, indigestion.

How to stop the pain in the chest during bouts of anxiety

The symptoms of anxiety attack will respond positively, control techniques such as deep breathing, relaxation exercises. Here's one powerful technique to stop the pain within a few seconds. He is best at, but you can do well standing or lying down:

1. to sit with your back straight and your hands and knees or thighs. Your eyes. When you do this to save on the edge of the tongue touches the top of your mouth. When the no-do it through the nose. Exhale through the mouth. Are you ready?

2. run the inhaling slowly to 4 seconds (counting them at the top of your out loud). Push out the abdomen, fill the lungs lower first. Then the rest of the lungs are filled.

The floor for until you counter to 7. Exhale comfortably for 8 seconds. Try to imagine that the anxiety leaves your body while they and exhaling. They give him. Pause for 2 seconds without inhaling (very important), do it again. Repeat until you feel the pain in the chest disappears. And it will be!

How to prevent pain in the chest and good

Pain in the chest can disappear as soon as you begin to reduce anxiety in your life. Promise! Don't let anyone tell you only that chest pain and anxiety can be treated by the therapy or prescription drugs. Medication is not the solution.