>*I posted on here before about this, but this came at the tail end of a spout of alcoholism I was battling at the time. For years I thought this was the root cause* I agree with you, a traumatic or stressful event, in this case from a negative alcoholic experience may have greatly contributed to the late onset of stuttering. According to research *most PWS with a late onset stuttering* recover from stuttering within a few months or years. **Conclusion**: I argue that recovering from stuttering may increase if: * we can feel fear and still resist doing the compulsion/rituals, feel tension and regardless of that, still interrupt the urge of doing the compulsion, according to [this](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NeB_o7tBfFr2VxblB7TZPbsOQGYTfIXOZHI2jEroP30/edit?usp=sharing) post * we accept that we are error-prone despite our neurological weaknesses e.g., being hyper-sensitive to anxiety. The positive effect could then be that we don't perceive stuttering as a problem (that would normally create strong emotions) or to be avoided (that would normally reinforce the use of anticipation) * we don't use the Anxiety Disorder as an excuse to develop a habit of excessively paying attention to stuttering, avoiding stuttering (avoidance-behavior) or trying to fix stuttering by doing unhelpful corrections * we don't use the Anxiety Disorder as an escape or coping mechanism to give in to the stutter cycle, e.g., letting triggers lead to the compulsion, overthinking, secondaries or excessively monitoring