I been fighting chest pain anxiety for almost five years now, the causes of this problem are infinite so I wont burden you with my problems, but I believe there are some solutions that can help all of us. At least these have been good thoughts for me and I hope they can help you.
Number one get right with your God, put God number one in your life, to me if someone else's opinion of me is causing me anxiety, I picture that I am actually putting that person on a pedestal higher than God. If that's not enough to motivate you, another way of putting this is that it is actually arrogant to think that that person is actually thinking about you for any length of time. Like Dr. Phil says they can kill you but they can't eat you, which leads me to the base of what I think is the root of many if not all of these reactions. It's normal to feel uncomfortable when we feel we are being singled out, don't you think this goes back to self preservation. Picture a pack of wolves on the hunt, would you feel more comfortable out in the open by your self or on the middle of a stage or in the middle of a large group of people. If you didn't have this little memory card in your brain that reminded you of that past painful situation, you would have a higher chance of getting hurt again. This is another reason I think that this reaction is absolutely normal, if not to a small degree intelligent. Imagine touching a boiling pot of water and not remembering that it burned you, I think this God's way of culling the herd (lol). Don't feel bad about it, it's normal to feel this way, you would be stupid not to remember past pain. Just don't let people that have hurt you in the past continue to hurt you by taking joy from your life, file these people in slot 13 were they belong.
Again I said that this has worked for me, by making the anxiety the result of being arrogant and me not caring for arrogant people, it has made it easier for me to get a handle on the choices I was making. Turn it in to whatever you have to, to make your self loath the reaction, whether it's arrogant or weak or whatever.
Deep breathing also helps, I think sometimes I get so focused on what I'm doing that I stop breathing, which leads to chest pain pretty quickly. The good thing about this is that all I have to do is take a few deep breaths and the pain goes away just as fast as it started. I think this is why exercise is so helpful, if you exercise hard, you can take deeper breaths. Which deeper breathing becomes more of a habit, the more you do the exercise to increase your lung capacity, the better you can breath. This may be a simple reason why most of these reactions get worse as we get older because of the decrease of the exercise which leads to decrease breathing.
Lastly eat a balanced meal and stay hydrated also, uneven blood sugar and dehydration are never a good thing.
