commentr/StutterJanuary 6, 2025

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Exactly! I remember when I did the Del Ferro stutter program with other stutterers. We didn’t stutter during speech therapy or while practicing the breathing method outside (after 5 PM, just after therapy hours). But as you said, when I was back home (after the 10-day stutter program), in those dire moments where I desperately needed not to stutter—knee-deep in the mud of real-life pressure—the technique just wouldn’t hold up, and stuttering returned. What was told to me, the technique's aim was to focus on breathing as a temporary distraction from triggers (like the fear of stuttering/speaking), so it should have worked at home too. My guess as to why it didn’t is that I encountered more triggers at home—not just that, also triggers I didn’t face during the stutter program, along with new ones I hadn’t realized I had. All these triggers were not only more intense but also deeply intertwined, like a tangled web or intricate maze, and a simple distraction-based technique wasn’t enough to unravel such a layered knot

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Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceAnticipation & Avoidance

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Stress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social JudgmentExperiential Association