Personally, I didn't hear about SA/SP from anywhere.
I was frightened of social situations, I knew that I wasn't just shy, that even other shy people were not as frightened of social situations as I was and their lives were not as limited as mine was because of my fear
. I knew that irrational fears like arachnophobia, agoraphobia and claustrophobia existed and I thought that there might be a phobia of people/socialising so I looked up sociophobia on the internet, found it was also called Social Anxiety and recognised the symptoms in myself. That was before I went to my GP doctor and psychiatrist
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