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Can anxiety from ocd cause chest tightness?
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Yes: Anxietycan cause a variety of symptoms, one of them could be chest tightness, palpitations, sweating, dizziness etc.
Answered 5/7/2016
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Anxiety : Indeed, anxiety can cause chest tightness. It can also cause real heart attack.
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