Last year more than 1,000 citizens were sent to early retirement with anxiety as a reason. The new approvals for early retirement due to anxiety cost only 3.4 billion in production losses last year - an increase of 910 million compared with 2013. At the same time, the proportion of children and adolescents diagnosed with anxiety or depression tripled the last ten years.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Exposure Therapy are two effective methods of anxiety treatment. VRET can create a very lifelike simulation of the situation that the citizen is fearing, but at the same time allows the citizen with a quick escape route by simply taking off the VR equipment. VRET seeks to create a high degree of perception. This can help free up the citizen's cognitive capacity and provide space for learning. Similarly, the VRET may be used to expose citizens to anxiety that is difficult to access in vivo, both for economic and practical reasons.