Do you think social anxiety should represented more in the media?

[Bob]

People are often able to care about what they see in the media, and this has got a lot of sympathy for people with various physical and mental problems and disabilities, but there is very little in the way of media on social anxiety, and it is rarely treated with much attention. I think that because of this, unless you have experience of it, either from yourself or someone close to you (and sometimes you don't even hear about it from them because of it) or they have an interest in psychology, it will go over most peoples heads. I think it is a problem that deserves some recognition and attention. A lot of people with social anxiety will be too afraid, due to the anxiety, to actually say anything about it, which is why I think it is such a difficult problem to deal with. I may be biased having experienced it myself, but I think it would be nice if people had more sympathy for it and did not alienate people because they don't always get what is wrong with them.

When I say media I mean mainly works of fiction (problems such as Aspergers have been getting a lot of attention this way in recent years), not News.

[imperfect..<3]

I know you mean Fiction type of media, but this is a type of media called 'We' basically, Facebook and Myspace and Yahoo answers is classed as 'We' media because we're MAKING the media, and on here, stuff like social anxiety is broad casted, just certain people avoid it, slowly it will progress, just like it did with depression states and like you said, aspergers.

I suffer with regular anxiety and it's horrible enough as it is, people need to be more aware of the things people with social and regular anxiety go through. But like i said, i'm sure it will progress.