Why do I feel like I am going to have a heart attack when I have a panic attack?

The physical reaction your body has when you have a panic attack often is very strong in your chest. A symptom of panic is a racing heart. These feelings that sit in your chest along with your beating heart can become almost painful and mimic the feeling of a heart attack, or make you worried that you're about to have one.

Usually panic attacks cause you tell feel certain ways the best thing to do is calm yourself and go for a walk or do something to calm yourself down.

Because maybe it's not a panic attack, maybe is an anxiety attack, it comes with something called tachycardia and your brain could asume it as a heart attack, because you feel disturbed and desperate.

Panic attacks sometimes do not just effect a person mentally but physically as well. Your heart usually will start to race and your breathing will become rapid. These are very normal signs of panic attacks and should go away once the panic attack subsides.

Because the symptoms are almost identical. Panic attacks arise from a great fear of present or future events. Your body gets overloaded with adrenaline so you can do the "fight or flight" thing. However, your body over does it and you kind of just short circuit yourself.

That's the nature of a panic attack, it makes us think we are dying. Also our heart can beat very fast along with intense chest pains.

I have panic attacks and I understand they are very scary. When you have a panic attack, your natural instincts kick in and you want to hide and protect yourself like prey. It's very scary.

You feel like this because of anxiety. When you worry you breathe slower and less. So all of that missed breath is needed and your body decides to make you feel that way so you can get more breath since you are not getting as much as you need!

A panic attack is not just panic in your mind like people tend to think, but it has physical symptoms as well. Some of them include shortness of breath/hyperventilation, a high heart rate/racing heart, pain/discomfort on your chest. Those are all symptoms that can feel like a heart attack. As a matter of fact, a lot of those symptoms alone, so without someone having a panic attack, can be confused with or even symptoms of heart issues or a heart attack. As if that isn't enough, a panic attack could also include a feeling like you're getting detached from your surroundings or even a strong fear of dying. If you get one or multiple of the symptoms which looks like a heart attack during (from) your panic attack, it will therefore look even more like you're having one.

You feel this way because, when you are having a panic attack it can get so bad that your heart races and then it may feel like you are having a heart attack.