– why do we get that heavy feeling in our chest when we’re anxious?
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Our torso has something called a vagus nerve in it, and not really any other nerves (it’s a big complicated junk of chunks, who wants to waste energy knowing exactly where your liver is?) So when something is wrong and your body can’t identify the problem, it blames the torso and the nerve starts sending signals to corroborate. That’s also why anxious kids complain of tummyaches and develop coughs.
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