When I started going to therapy, this was exactly my question when I was creating my goals. Should I move forward in managing it or should I move forward in somehow slowly recovering from it? I based these questions from the current research on stuttering and was able to see that many conclude it is lifelong. I wasn’t able to get a straight answer. I think my therapist was being cautious in leading me to the passivity of just managing it (with the thought that it just looms over everywhere) and the fact that it’s highly likely to be lifelong. I guess being 24 with many opportunities that I am currently trying, I’m still not in the phase of acceptance and still get that depressive feeling of not being able to say things that I want and or not being able to speak properly in front of many significant people. I sometimes say, let it rip. But it rips damn hard.