I know it’s difficult! It begins to push us into a hole of being more self conscious, less confident, and less assertive, which all leads to more stuttering and less feeling of entitlement to express ourselves. But I believe there is a route out of that hole and it’s to observe ourselves and our daily thought patterns, diet, sleep , exercise, etc., and find our limiting beliefs so we can slowly take steps forward. And of course following a program that provides technique and helps with stuttering. Personally, I follow the Dave McGuire Program and they have an inexpensive self help book on Amazon called “Beyond Stammering: The Dave McGuire Program for getting good at the Sport of Speaking.” It’s no easy program but I consider it to have really helped me so far. I think for so much of us the mental anguish we face is self inflicted. We are our own worst enemy when it comes to our stuttering. We judge ourselves even before other people do. And even other people’s criticism really only hurts when we use our own brain to confirm it as true. So I believe a lot of the answers are within us