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Can a panic attack lead to a heart attack?

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No, it can't. Although panic attack symptoms (sweating, chest pains, dizziness, rapid heart beat, choking, shaking...) are very frightening, all these feelings, thoughts and sensations you experience are products of the anxious nerve signals your brain produces, not the signs of illness.. not physical illness, not mental illness and they can not lead to heart attack!
Symptoms of panic attacks are unpleasant to say the least BUT they are completely normal
and harmless (no matter how inappropriate this sounds).

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