Thank you for sharing your experience and advice. I’ve been unsure how to proceed when it comes to analyzing my stuttering patterns. It sometimes seems the more I think about it, the more likely I am to stutter. And then there are times I don’t stutter at all. That combination makes me feel like I’m subconsciously faking it or something. Yet I’m quite sure I’m not. By this age and with the severity of my bipolar symptoms, I should think it would have occurred sooner. I appreciate the advice. This may sound weird but it’s almost as if you’ve lifted my anxiety over analyzing my stuttering and given me permission to think it through. Weird maybe, but I was afraid if I thought about it I’d ruin my chances that it would improve or go away. But I can’t NOT think about it, at least a little bit. So far, I’ve found that I stutter rarely when alone or talking to my dog. I stutter most when tired or under emotional duress. If my mind becomes captivated by something, I become fluent, even if I was stuttering before my attention was caught up. I stutter less if I have a drink. I tend to stutter on the phone, even if I practice what I need to say prior to making the call. I haven’t identified which sounds or words might be triggers; but then I never realized that was a thing either, so I will pay attention. Sometimes I just cannot produce a word so I fall back on describing the thing I mean. I can’t tell if that’s a stuttering thing or like an aphasia thing. Are there similarities? I have a lot to learn, only I’ve been afraid to research it for fear I will somehow reinforce it and then I’ll get worse or not get better. Thank you for sharing this. Do you mind my asking how old you were when you began to stutter and what caused it?