The label of schizophrenia carries with it tremendous stigma, prejudice and discrimination in society.  Why should not individuals who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia that puts them into a marginalized pariah status not have anxiety about being accepted into and by society, in general?  Stereotypical attitudes are not primarily a function of individual behavior but of permeating cultural and societal prejudice and discrimination. Historically, similar to African-Americans, Gypsies, Jews,or people labeled as epileptics or leper have had good reason to be anxious about being treated as full and respected human beings in the communities they have lived. Why wouldn't a person have social anxiety when their groups, such as people diagnosed with schizophrenia, are common objects of derision and fear, and where neighborhoods file lawsuits and staged hateful protests to keep you out of their neigborhood. Being the "Other" will naturally cause social anxiety and should not be so easily pathologized and decontexualized from societal prejudice and discrimination as does psychiatric diagnosis and research does.