With the march of civilization, man is traversing boundaries beyond the limits of imagination. In the spheres of science and technology, the arts and various other fields, man is continuously reaching newer heights. Unfortunately, he has had to pay a heavy price which came as a baggage with such advancement. War, violence, pollution and other things are part of a long list of numerous problems. The baggage, which comes with living such highly intricate and complex lifestyles, has been neatly put in a nutshell by a word that was coined by an endocrinologist Dr. Hans Selye, in the 1930s, and that word is "stress".

Stress is a common word in our lives today. And, all our daily actions are inevitably marked by stress. This word is used to describe a highly intense level of emotional pressure marked by panic and tension in a critical moment, or for that matter, any situation which is emotionally draining. Also, stress finds various outlets through negative actions such as, in extreme cases, like suicide, self-mutilation, and unpredictability of temperament, verbal and physical abuse and so on. The numbers are rising steadily. We are living in such difficult and demanding times that we accept stress as a part of our daily lives. This long and exhaustive list includes financial problems, personal safety and various other all too common factors of everyday life.

This includes anxiety therapy. Anxiety therapy has various relaxation techniques including meditation, to combat stress. Hypno-therapy is often used to combat stress-related issues using of both mental and physical relaxation to calm the subject's mind. Another feature of anxiety therapy is also Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT. This therapy uses three methods to help a patient suffering from stress related problems using cognitive, behavioural and emotional methods. That is, through the thinking patterns of the subject's mind, his/her daily actions and by channelising one's emotions in positive ways.

Today, hearing of children suffering from a variety of depression related ailments is a common occurrence. Problems like academics and peer issues abound in their lives, among other things. Everyday young people, especially teenagers are killing themselves when they find reality too harsh to deal with. Expectations pile up as people are cornered and ultimately forced to juggle numerous commitments simultaneously. Small wonder it is, that people are stressed out as a result of intense emotional claustrophobia.

To resole this threatening crisis there are different avenues that have opened up. People are flocking to the therapists in large numbers, in need of anxiety therapy. Also, anxiety therapy includes sessions and hypnosis, physical exercises, massage sessions, standard medication including anxiolytics which are drugs. ACT or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a technique being applied in anxiety therapy.