I agree with you about the whole "fear to stutter" thing to a degree, I hardly stutter at all when I'm alone. And it's definitely more of a cognitive, mental thing for me rather than a physical malady. It's the mother of all mindgames/mindfucks, something that I've unfortunately managed to ingrain in myself for the last 35 years. But for me speech therapy has actually helped. I started some pretty intensive therapy sessions (3-4 times a week for the last 2 or 3 months) with a local SLP that has over 38 years of experience doing what she does. And I've gotta say, it's been a big help. Is it a night-and-day, "look Ma, I'm cured!" thing? Nope, I still stutter. But the techniques I've learned alone have helped me in my day-to-day speech. We're at the point in therapy now where we're focusing on the cognitive aspects of stuttering (exploring, for example, why I'm nearly 100 percent fluent alone and stutter everywhere else). In the last few weeks I've been working on myself getting myself "out there" and forcing myself into speaking situations. Anything from making small talk at the cash register to asking for help at a store (before I'd just make laps around the store for the next 15-20 minutes looking for whatever I needed) to chatting a girl up. Anything to help me break that ingrained habit of "don't talk, or if you do, say as few words as you can." It's the absolute epitome of a process. It's not going to fix itself overnight, and certainly not without a bunch of effort and input from myself. But it's doable. I wish I'd started consistent speech therapy 20 years ago, but at least I started it at the tender age of 37 and not 38. People in general (and this goes triple for stutterers) always want to find that quick fix, that pill, that "neat trick," that whatever to just one-shot their stutter and make it go away forever. Right now if you sort this subreddit by "hot" you see posts talking about "mouth-taping," a French stuttering course involving a drinking straw, managing your dopamine levels via food and its effect on your stutter, and clinical trials for gemlapodect. People tend to want that easy fix, particularly for something as potentially debilitating as a stutter of any severity. Hopefully whatever you're doing continues to work for you!