Anxiety Attack

I am scared as  I’ve been having more and more panic attacks, or maybe they are best called anxiety attacks, in the last few weeks.

Normally I would lay down, get a paper bag, and breath into it until I could breath calmly again. But afterwords, my chest would slightly hurt.I am now getting anxious that my anxiety attacks are affecting my heart in a permanent way.

Is chest pain one of the well known anxiety physical symptoms or should I be worried that I am developing some kind of heart problem. It is a bit surreal that the worry of problems that come about from anxiety attacks is causing me to have more anxiety. I am wondering if there is anyway to put a final stop to the round about of panic attacks and worry about the harm they are doing to my body.

Since I think it may be the use of a brown paper back as an anxiety treatment that is causing these problems my question is. Is there a way to calm myself down in a safer way?

Panic attacks and anxiety attacks are a serious problem for far to many people and it is causing me a good deal of stress. If more people could recognize the physical symptoms that come with anxiety attacks it may be easier to get help.