>This particular Speech Therapist taught me how to shape my mouth into weird shapes when speaking, how to slow down my words to the pace that it sounded like I was mooing.. she also taught me how to breathe in when I speak or maybe it was breathe out, I don’t even remember now. And while this may have helped with my physical technique of speaking, it didn’t tackle the one thing that a speech pathologist with never understand; the mental scars of stuttering. >So when you sit there and think that the road to becoming cured of stuttering is in your office with the techniques that you learned in a classroom from another person who has never stuttered, step back and realize that you have no idea the things that are going on in this individuals head during basic tasks. I'm curious: Did you ever talk to your speech therapist about these things? I'm asking because it's pretty clearly outside the purview of a speech therapist, and I don't know how it came about that you went there for that. To wit: "Curing" is not the goal, and "having been there yourself" is not a criteria. Stutter management and treatment is evidence-based, after all ('what's likely to work', in other words). How long did you attend this? At any rate, you've (almost) said it yourself: >Therapy will help you with the technical aspects of speaking, but it doesn’t help everybody and the people that it does help, it doesn’t tackle the mental issues that come with stuttering. I'll agree with you that we have to somehow work on our mood and outlook, but for some, this entails having success with speech therapy progress. There are many ways to feel better, and not everyone does it the same way. Good thing we have professionals, in that case. For some, like maybe you and me (I don't know how similar we are), it's all about landing in an environment that's supportive instead of hostile. I communicate more than I ever have, and that's because the place I work is great. That sort of thing then spreads to other avenues of life. But again, I wouldn't want to force people on that path - we often need to take smaller steps towards improvement, in order to feel like we're still in control (the latter being at least part of what speech therapy is about).