CHEST PAIN FROM TENSION

Chest pain caused by psychological complaints:

For a large part of the stated chest pain, no organic causes are found. After a detailed physical, technical and laboratory examination, one should consider a psychosomatic component or a psychiatric cause. In the case of psychiatric illnesses, such as depression, psychosis or a delusional disease, patients increase themselves to the smallest of complaints without a heart disease being present.

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Today there are clinics with so-called psychosomatic, cardiological departments that deal with this problem. A heart attack can also occur in patients with hypochondria or cardiac neurosis. These patients are so afraid of dying from a heart attack that psychogenic factors can actually cause heart problems. Even after bereavement or life crises, heart or chest pain or chest pain are often reported by patients, which must always be followed up first.

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Chest pain in children

Chest pain in children are relatively common and usually without a serious cause. Most of the time the complaints occur in the adolescent between the 12 and 14 years of age on. The causes are mostly the above-mentioned intercostal neuralgia, functional chest wall pain or psychogenic factors, which are less common in childhood in the form of an anxiety neurosis. Rather, it is social fears, such as the fear Talking in front of a class, etc. that can trigger chest pain symptoms.

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