Anxiety is not only a normal capability but but also a very healthy characteristic. Because reactions in anxiety protect us in danger and warn us fast and efficiently – faster than we can think of. It has to be like that because in danger one needs to react as quick as a flash. These “reactions in alarm”  happen within seconds. This is possible ass our body has complete “programs” which are made available in specific situations automatically. They activate the vegetative nerve system and all vital important systems are under “high voltage”.

Some people experience these alarm signals when there is no alarm as such. It can be a crowd of people, or closed rooms (like elevators or bus) but also big places of high altitude. With other people it happens rather when being in the centre of the event or being watched by people, for example when having to make a speech. Some people experience anxiety out of the blue. Also when these situations are really harmless, they evoke practically automatically enormous alarm reactions which even go together with an agonal state. This fear seems to be arbitrary but when panicky seems very realistic. If one experiences it more often and one has no control over the panic, one tries to void such situations. This can lead to a reduced scope of action. In the effort to react careful and observant more and more situations are avoided, one withdraws but having again and again attacks of anxiety. Now starts the anxiety of anxiety. And now one can speak of anxiety disorders.

Anxiety can build up to a long standing disease and can considerably affect total life and that of your relatives. Withdrawal from social life, dependency, inability to perform work and depressions are often consequences.

On the basis of the well-founded assumption that our emotions can influence the inner milieu we developed on the basis of the CITERA™ strategy a therapy which collateral to a possible behaviour therapy can remarkably faster reduce or even completely suspend state of anxiety.