postr/StutterOctober 31, 2021

Speech block is ruining my social life. Help needed

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Speech block is ruining my social life. Help needed Hi everyone, throughout my life I have sporadically been dealing with speech blocks and they have been debilitating to the extent that I’m blocking on a word in every sentence I say. As a result, I’m scared to approach people even close friends and family for a conversation because I know I will block and this causes me to lose confidence. This is frustrating because I know that when I can speak fluently I am quite a relaxed and funny person to be around but I can’t express this side of me with my speech block. Furthermore, I have days where I can speak articulately and not block on a single word and I’ve noticed that I only block when I’m thinking about the words that I’m going to say. When I don’t overthink about my next sentence I speak fluently but blocking is always on my mind so days where I can be fluent are few and far between. Is there any way I can stop thinking about my speech block and speak fluently again? because deep down I know that I can

Themes

Anticipation & AvoidanceSpeech & Stuttering

Subthemes

Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringBlocks & Stoppages