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My stuttering came back after 10 years Hi everyone, i had a stuttering issue when i was about 7-9 that affected every sentence i spoke. I went to speech therapy and it completely went away-up until this spring. For reference i am 19 now. I'm in college and this past spring i began to wake up with extreme anxiety and stress for "no reason", nothing incredibly significant happened. I had lots of testing and wasn't super comfortable where i was living. But i began to stutter like crazy. I was in shock because i hadn't stuttered like that in 10 years. Some days I could barely get a sentence out and some days i would only stumble on a few words. When i got home from college for summer my stuttering went down a lot and that's when i realized it was probably stress. Although it didn't go away completely. Now it feels that social anxiety has developed because i now don't wake up with anxiety, but develop it before i talk to someone because im afraid i will stutter and become embarrassed. How should I go about this? I get enough sleep and eat good so the natural remedies are there, should I try to get medication for my anxiety to see if my stuttering goes away? Today I had to check in to the dentist and i wasn't nervous the whole car ride but once i realized i could possibly stutter in front of the waiting room i felt sick to my stomach, i stuttered my whole way through saying my address and phone number and then proceeded to think about it for the next 45 minutes on how "dumb" i looked. There is nothing dumb about stuttering, just felt embarrassed and need some advice.