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anxiety. Usually this kind of chest pain is caused due to rapid heartbeats and high blood pressure or as a result of tension. People with heart problems may be common victims of such pains at the time of panic or anxiety. Very often even people who are not heart patients may experience chest pains at the time of stress.

Symptoms:
The symptoms of this kind of a chest pain are similar to the symptoms of heart attack. Usually anxiety chest pains are experienced with heavy breathing, which can be termed as hyperventilation, profuse sweating and shortness of breath. The person may feel weak and fall to the floor. The patient is then carried to the emergency room for the panic attack is mistaken for a heart attack.

Causes:
The regular causes of anxiety are stress, tensions and insecurities. These causes originate the chest pains. But there are other sources that only add fuel to fire and worsen case following are some of them:
Cardiac problems: problems of the heart such as heartburns, pulmonary embolism (blood clots disturbing blood flow), and other heart relate problems.
Obesity: At the time of anxiety the heartbeats become rapid, and the heart requires free and fast flow of blood. Fats are deposited in the arteries that carry blood to your heart, thereby narrowing them and restricting blood from reaching the heart. This problem causes shortness of breath and chest pain.
Asthma: the problem of asthma is common even among very young children. Asthma is experienced at the time of anxiety and during asthma there is shortness of breath, which causes not so severe chest pains.

Diagnosis:
In order to note if the chest pain is due to anxiety, and anxious situation is artificially created and the patient's heartbeats are measured. If the patient's heartbeats become rapid and he undergoes all the symptoms of anxiety chest pains it would suggest that he often experiences anxiety chest pains.

Treatment:
The patients can be given anti-anxiety drugs. He can also be counseled, as anxiety after all is a psychological disorder. He can also be taught the techniques of relaxation.