I mean think about it, if scientists and technology can put man on the moon, then why can't they find a cure for SA/SP Confused I think more scientific and medical research should be done into how Socialphobia is caused and what can be done to try to cure it completely.
Yeah but you're comparing too completely different branches of technology/science, they don't always progress at the same rate. Its amazing isn't it though, that we could potentially travel to that great big grey rock in the sky yet not be able to find a cure for this fear. [To be honest I don't think space travel has progressed that much anyway, you should hear some of the reasons why missions fail! 8O It's embarrassing]
I don't know what stage psychological study is at, but I'm guessing there is still a long way to go before medicine can be used to cure SP. I'm more used to physics, so forgive the example, but when you study a system based on its physical characteristics you often have just a handful of variables e.g. speed, friction, mass, direction etc. but with the human brain you've got all sorts; message transmissions & storage , long and short term memories, message processing blah blah
My opinion is that the human brain has so many interacting variables that it would be very difficult to design a medicine for SP that wouldn't also make us stupid (like thugaveli mentioned, it would probably turn us into zombies). Because a cure for SP may want to dimish certain thoughts, but how can it be so specific as to target only those emotions to do with social situations? It may remove all our thoughts until we become brain dead socialites. Great, just like everyone else then. :roll:
I think give it another 5000 years and then, maybe, post this topic up again and we shall see!