postr/StutterJuly 6, 2017

Shitty thoughts of stutterering causing my social failure are coming back. Change my view on this please.

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Shitty thoughts of stutterering causing my social failure are coming back. Change my view on this please. So growing up ive always failed MISERABLY when it comes to social situations. Up until 20 I attributed almost 100% of it to my stutter. I'm 21 now. Anyways I was able to rid myself of that specific stutter anxiety a whole lot last year. I realized that most people don't really care all that much. I think?. Anyways my mind believed it and my stutter also happened to improve a great great deal from 20-21 so that definitely helped too. I was almost not stutterering or stutterering so little that the average person can't notice. I was finally telling stories cracking joke and all that good stuff. Finally. However........I can feel the downhill of a worseing stuttering coming back. Or at least that's what my anxious mind is saying. "It's coming back. You'll never be cured. Stuttering has ruined your life and will do so till the day you die.". My blocks have become worse and more frequent. My anxiety is coming back and whenever I talk to people I am thinking in the back of my head "They care alot that's why you've always failed in life. You've always been made to look awkward and mentally retarded because of it". Unfortunately I am unable to shake off these feelings and am starting to believe them. Tell me a more positive prespective. Change my view on this cause I can't find any justification on my own.

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Emotional ExperienceSpeech & StutteringCauses & Variability

Subthemes

Anxiety & Social JudgmentBlocks & StoppagesHelplessness & AgencySeverity & Fluctuation