Why does anxiety give you a funny feeling in your chest?

Anxiety symptoms: Physical symptoms of anxiety often cause discomfort and concern, and include chest pain, shortness of breath, tingling and burning, or other sensations. These are likely due to changes in breathing and chemical changes that come from autonomic arousal (fight or flight), and in some cases acid reflux. Anxiety also increases one's sensitivity to physical changes that may amplify these sensations.

Anxiety impacts : people in many different ways. Some people get headaches, backaches, neck pain. Sometimes where you feel the anxiety can help you understand what's causing it. Heart aches may be connected to relationship issues, backaches, carrying too many burdens for instance. In therapy, psychologists help people figure out what is causing the anxiety.

Anxiety shows itself: In may ways. Once can mentally obsess over things that frighten the person or do behaviors to keep danger away, e.g., ritual behaviors, checking and re-checking. Physically there can be heart palpitations, shortness of breath, sweating, sleeplessness, etc. Please go to a mental health professional for support if you think you have an anxiety disorder.

Fight-Flight-Freeze!: All of the physical symptoms of anxiety are directly the result of the cascade of physiological events that get triggered when your primitive fear & rage brain centers sense danger. Learn about this "fight or flight or freeze" response. See: http://youth.anxietybc.com/ask-an-expert/what-is-fight-flight-freeze Once you understand the physiology of anxiety, its physical symptoms make sense