**"I think to stop stuttering it all has to do with mindset and confidence in believing in yourself that you don’t stutter."** ​ One of our triggers is: **"I believe that I will stutter on this feared letter"**. Suppose that we deal with this thought by '**gaining confidence**', as you said, then we overlook the other 20 triggers that lead to us justifying and choosing compulsion. You have to remember, that we are not developmental stutterers anymore, we developed ourselves to a chronic phase by identifying with the trigger, by justifying the trigger, by making the trigger unquestionable, etc. Conclusion: So, **confidence** approaches a speck of the total picture. You could even argue that confidence is not necessary to stop compulsion, because it's our own response/perspective that prevents us from stopping compulsion (not the lack of confidence) which means that **confidence** in this viewpoint is merely a coping mechanism at best making you 'believe' that you need confidence to speak automatically without compulsoin. In this way, '**confidence**' is counter-productive because it makes the trigger real 'as if you need confidence firstly' to speak automatic without compulsion. Non-stutterers can have no confidence, but they still don't justify/choose compulsion while PWS have learned to create a stutter mindset to choose/justify compulsion.