postr/StutterAugust 14, 2024

Is my case curable ? Is it only because of stress and anxiety?

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Is my case curable ? Is it only because of stress and anxiety? So guys m 26 here a stutterer from Morocco. I stared stuttering at the age of 10. Most of the times I only stuttered at school, it was my main problem cuz outside or wherever I am, I didn't stutter or let's say I stuttered but rarely, and if I'm in front of a group of people and asked to reas something, I stuttered. Another thing which is I never stuttered in 2 or 3 words, I only stutter when I have a lot to say. During my studies, it was always flexible, sometimes better other times worse. But something weird happened to me, in the first year of high school it was the worst ever, I stuttered a lot and it affected my stutter outside too so I stuttered even with friends and family ( but always less than school) I was very disappointed and school was like hell for me I was waiting for the season to finish so I can rest. When I finished the year I rested and I felt so good, the problem here is that in my mind my stutter was always related to school and in that summer I felt calm and my stutter disappeared but I didn't notice ( cuz it was flexible and related to school for me ) the next year I was afraid that I would stutter, but somehow I found myself fluent like I've never stuttered before and I felt like I was 8 and 7. Life was so much beautiful and I forgot about stuttering cuz I stopped stuttering at all , but somehow after 8 months it came back again slowly out of nowhere.... Then never left, but always better with friends and family and foreigners too. Now I realized that I only stutter when I have to speak in front of many foreigners who have higher power than me and others are waiting for what I'm gonna say especially in an official event and in other foreign languages. This evening I was talking to my friends ( who think I don't stutter cuz I only stutter rarely) and I found out that I always try to speak fast, so I breathed so deep before talking and I didn't stutter at all. But when I try to use the technique at class for example, it doesn't succed... That's why I think it's related to anxiety. What happened to me in the 2md year of high school ( when I stopped stuttering at all for 8 months) always giving me hope that one day I can get rid of it, but I'm not sure if this is even curable or not...

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Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceAnticipation & Avoidance

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Stress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social JudgmentOverthinking & MonitoringFeared Words & Names

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