PDF checklist: tips to improve stuttering. Guys, let's address the out of control feeling
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PDF checklist: tips to improve stuttering. Guys, let's address the out of control feeling People who stutter can experience an out of control-feeling. It's as if the word is stuck. At the moment of a stutter we can believe speaking is a struggle or we can feel a stutter coming. These thoughts and feelings are actually intrusive thoughts and feelings. **What can we do about intrusive thoughts and feelings?** Re-wiring of the brain. It’s not really a “cure” everyone has intrusive thoughts. The idea is to learn to sit with “uncertainty” around your thoughts/feelings and allow the distress you feel to just happen. Overtime it’s believed that allowing the distress to happen, will show you that there’s no real threat. When you realize there’s no real threat, the brain has been re-wired to stop applying meaning to the intrusive thoughts when they happen. In turn breaking the cycle/loop. In a nutshell. This is your homework: 1. Read this [Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/OCDRecovery/comments/xjsttj/tips_for_stutteringocd_observing_triggers_not/) 2. Read the theory + tips in [this](https://www.anxietycanada.com/sites/default/files/adult_hmocd.pdf) PDF checklist 3. Track your progress in [this](https://www.getselfhelp.co.uk/media/msqnlxar/ocdthoughtrecordsheet.pdf) PDF checklist