> I've even found I stutter when talking to myself, almost more. I have, for many years, used an oral self monologue when thinking through topics in the privacy of my room. My dad was a religious leader, who had to rehearse his sermons in the house... and that's probably why I have allowed myself to develop this habit. One always wonders how much of an effect this can have on your voice in public. Of course, it will have some. If you talk quietly and quickly to yourself in your room, this type of rhythm might also come out when you are talking to someone on the bus, or in a classroom. However, whereas the overall quality of the voice might be affected, it's something you can fix if you are aware of the acoustics in the room. It can help to use a voice recorder to hold a mirror up to your vocal patterns, so to speak, so you can examine them. You may find a lot of it is simply learning better breath control (something taught in elocution or singing classes). _____ Real blocks - when one stutters in public - are something entirely different, in my earnest opinion. It's possible that if you're getting busy with exams, that you're letting yourself be funnelled, in your life. The best advice I would have, is a trick that I've learned to use whenever I've felt driven into habitual or compulsive types of behavior. Breathe deep, and then sit back and think about how your personal life ethics (or personal creeds, if you want to go that far) measure up against the thing that you feel driven to do, right now. Balance out the thought of doing that, against all the other things in your life that you want to do, or that you should do. This is one very good way that I find I can break out of these life patterns, where the stuttering seems to come up again and again, like land mines in my conversations with people.