Awareness is definitely something that needs to be hammered into the public consciousness. There are a few barriers to achieving this though. The very nature of the disorder is one of them. If we cannot speak out, how can we command attention? Another is the confusion in the nomenclature. Within social anxiety you have sub-threshold and generalized type. The latter is also considered by some professionals, in conjunction with avoidant personality disorder, to be two constructs of the same condition.
As for writing an article detailing the suffering involved in living with SA, it is a good idea but one that may prove frustrating. Writing, like acting (not to mention arm-chair psychology), is something everyone thinks they can do. Unfortunately the reality is that talent is necessary as with everything else. To effectively grab the public's attention and penetrate their barrier of victim fatigue requires a talent few possess. It is not enough just to suffer; one must be able to capture the essence of that experience and distil it in such a manner that is inescapable.
*The last paragraph wasn't specifically directed at you by the way. I just see a lot of people saying they are going to write such and such and I don't think they realise the dynamics involved.*
Another way of capturing media interest would be to create a montage of videos depicting various people (or even a single person) describing SA and how it affects their life and then posting it on something like YouTube. Of course, this requires a certain amount of skill as well, but the speed with which videos travel once they attain that vaunted "viral" status is light years ahead of traditional media, not to mention more pervasive.
