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Can i make a couple assumptions? Male? Late teens early 20's? If so, I've been there. Holy shit is it hard as a stutterer. It did get better for me. I'm a happy man of 40 now, 2 kids and a wife. The whole bit, you know? I like my work, I have good friends (though in all honesty, none close to me geographically right now), i still stutter but it's fairly light. I know this life of ours isn't easy and where you are now is the worst. Your hormones are still all fucked up and that really contributes to the problem. It does get better but it IS going to be a fight. In the meantime between time, get some hobbies and work on you. What's the old saw? Everyone needs 3 hobbies: one to keep your mind sharp, one to keep you in shape, and one to make you money? I think that's it, if not it is good advice anyway. Mine are books, chess and vidya for the first, Disc golf and biking for the second and i haven't got the third worked out yet. Confidence is an important commodity and being truly good at anything helps. And therapy. Both speech and mental. Speech therapy has helped me a lot through the years though it didn't stick entirely for me. I've had periods of perfect fluency interspersed with periods when i couldn't get a single fluent weird out. Psycho therapy helps keep you out from the deepest depths of despair. You'll probably still see them from time to time but hopefully from a vantage point one level higher. Take care of yourself. I know how hard it is to feel valuable at this time in on your life but you ARE valuable. Keep telling yourself that and keeping working on yourself until you can see it. It's there.