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Thanks for the link, will go through that! :) When it comes to performance anxiety, I've always looked at it in two ways - " Fighting the anxiety '' or just overriding it. And what I mean by that is....in the first method, you are actively recognizing the problem and working with it. You are layering techniques over the existing anxiety to work through the anxiety and '' fight '' it. By the 2nd method, you are taking a different approach from the first one. An approach where you aim at the root of the problem, rather than fighting the problem itself. An example of this would be how social anxiety plays into stuttering. The worse your social anxiety, the worse your stutter will be. Based on my personal experience, talking has been easiest for me when my social anxiety was nill and I was enjoying social gatherings. So I didn't target my stutter directly, the fluency was a result of me getting over my social anxiety. I've always thought the latter was the only method because I had failure with the first method. Seemed like the more I wanted fluency, the further away I got from it lol. But these fluency techniques give me hope! I'll give them a try.