Chest pain during panic is very common symptom of panic attacks but is often associated with heart attacks and other serious heart diseases as well. You might think you're suffering from a cardiac arrest when you experience chest pain for the very first time. Chest pain is the sensation of pain on your upper torso just below the neck, right above the breastbone. It often intensifies during an attack and can leave you feeling light headed, stressed out and even scared. Sometimes anxiety and panic attacks chest pain is mistaken as the onset of heart attack as it can feel like one when chest pains last for a few minutes. Some people confuse it with the feeling of tightness in the chest. Tension or a feeling of tightness usually indicates a heart attack but it's important to know that it could be something else. It's not a life threatening condition, but it can be very frightening for those who experience it. It can come from a variety of disorders and illnesses including influ...
As a child of the eighties, I remember my parents' excitement over the idea of testing for depression in adults. The thought of taking a pill every day to "make me feel good," was a far more attractive option than the prescription drugs my parents were taking. I grew up with parents who could never imagine themselves as adults. In my mind, their adult emotions had to be somehow "determined" by some mental process that could never be completely understood by the average person. So they put aside their qualms about the use of psychiatric medications, and enjoyed the benefits of their choice. Today, I am an adult who have had "the experience" of having "depressed feelings," but not necessarily experienced the debilitating episodes of depression that my parents' generation did. Today, I have learned how to "cope." Through a course of prescribed medication and therapy, I have discovered how to treat depression, and I no longer take...