Awesome reply! You said: *"Social COGNITION (i.e., when you are thinking how other people are perceiving you, even on a subconscious level) is what interferes with the neural pathways of speech articulation"* Absolutely! In my stutter experience, it seems that I have linked SOCIAL COGNITION and a psychosomatic response (i.e., a head/neck pain that leads to fainting). So that, if the SOCIAL EVALUATion is termed negative by the subconscious, it then leads my subconscious to evoke head/neck pain that leads to fainting (i.e., a conditioned protection mechanism). Resulting in another automatic protection response (yes indeed, double protection mechanisms) which automatically (involuntarily) prevents the execution of the speech plan or **in your own words**, interfers with the neural pathways of speech articulation. *To clarify*: I do not stutter whenever I don't feel head/neck pain.. however my stutter disorder is definitely considered *persistent developmental stuttering*. Additionally, I don't have any structural damage or brain damage. That said, I'd be happy if you could perhaps give me some advice **Question**: What interventions could you recommend with the goal of weakening the "conditioned" link between the head/neck fainting (in other words, I personally call this the freeze response) and the perceived conflict which of course is the negatively evaluated error of social cognition? *(that ultimately transpires as stuttering, as an indirect outcome, as the manifestions)* *The intervention that I'm applying at this moment that has led me to stuttering remissions and relapses is* [*this one*](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xg7RwTND-yuIWREJCQJXQpIPoT1cEBSm/view?usp=sharing)*.* Still , I’m finding it very difficult to weaken the conditioned association between my psychosomatic freeze response and social cognition. Your thougts? I really need detailed advice