Anxiety can leave you breathless. The symptoms of hyperventilation, which literally means overbreathing, are commonly experienced by people with anxiety and yet frequently go unrecognized by either the doctor or the sufferer.

Yet hyperventilation accounts for over 10 percent of visits to hospital emergency rooms.Although breathing is the most fundamental function of being alive, many people breathe improperly. Rapid, shallow breathing leads to exhaling too much carbon dioxide, which can produce many frightening sensations including light-headedness, dizziness, shortness of breath, perspiration,
numbness and tingling, and chest pain.