1/ People don't just "have" social anxiety. The anxiety holds meanings that can be explored & understood. The anxiety exists for reasons, conscious & unconscious
When we understand the underlying meanings, we become freer & more whole. That's psychotherapy
But those promoting

2/ "psychology" in public are in the business of negating psychological meanings & denying there's anything more to mental life than the surface of the surface
They no longer promote self-knowledge. They promote superficiality & bypasses
That's not why I went into this field