Nervous Heart Symptoms

As well as being the pump that keeps your circulation going, the heart is also a site where emotions manifest themselves. The heart seems to leap for joy, ache with grief, or burst for fear. People who are subject to particular stresses and strains may experience nervous heart symptoms. These typically manifest directly as symptoms of the heart, such as a stabbing sensation, fluttering in the chest, extra beats or an irregular heart beat. People often experience also anxiety and tightness of the chest and a sensation as of a lump in the throat or behind the breastbone.

Be careful. Serious organic heart disease may produce the same symptoms. So be sure to see an experienced health care provider for a proper diagnosis and a prescription of any medications you may need.

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How Important Is the Heart?

The heart has found its way into many idioms and collocations: people may be good at heart, heartless, soft-hearted or hard-hearted; you may eat your heart out, eat to your heart’s content because you have a hearty appetite, or you may have your heart in your mouth; and you may know, learn or say something by heart. This central role of the heart is probably due to the fact that the heart responds very sensitively to emotions, beating faster and stronger when we are excited (be it for joy or otherwise). Moreover, a well functioning heart is crucial to survival (although many other organs are just as vital). However, the heart is also the leading cause of death in many industrialized nations. This is why heart symptoms may be a cause for great anxiety and, therefore, should be medically evaluated.