" I hated how I felt, besides I’d always end up talking about my life problems rather than focusing on my stutter." So you are saying they are separate things? That's not what many of the more recent treatments and approaches for persistent stuttering would suggest... ie that the two things "life problems" and "stutter" may exist in a sort of feedback loop. Second, I'm going to make a guess, but you aren't American...South-Asian is my guess. Attitudes toward stuttering are noticeably worse in some places outside the US... I don't stutter by the way, I just study it. Honestly your experiences are pretty common, in the literature you'll find many people having similar experiences 1) a negative reaction from a relative 2) a teacher who forced them to read aloud in class 3)co-morbid social anxiety. You'll find many people on this forum with similar experiences I should think.