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My story Hello everyone, I would like to share my story because I never really talked openly about it. I'm 26 male from Greece. I stutter all my life. Until the age of 22 the problem was mild and controllable. The last 4 years, stuttering has become severe which put me in deep depression (diagnosed by 2 separate experts). I'm much better now and fully in control of my life both about stuttering and psychologically speaking. Let me give you some info about my background. I was always a brilliant student, good athlete and decent looking. In other words, I had everything. The only problem was that mild stuttering. I managed to get accepting in a very good university and went studying abroad (UK) were I completed my bachelor and Masters degree. A month after I started my masters degree the stuttering begun to get worse and worse. By the time I graduated I couldn't form a simple sentence in English without stuttering. The stuttering was somehow better when I was speaking in my native language, Greek. Therefore I decided to return to Greece. I rejected an offer by a big naval company and abandoned all my dreams of an international career abroad and returned to my small town in Greece living with my mother. I decided to take a break from everything for about 6 months and relax cause I thought maybe stress was the reason of the problem. In those 6 months, I maybe went out of the house 6-7 times. I abandoned all my friends and any form of social life. The 6 months became 1 year and the 1 year became 2. Then, my mother managed to convince me to see a a therapist and my life changed. The therapist introduced me to a speech pathologist. Step by step the past year I make progress which affected my stuttering positively. I still have a long way to go but I feel alive again. I want to share my experiences and listen to yours. We can share tactics and ways to help each other or anything else. I'm good listener and frankly I never met or talked to anyone with a stuttering problem so I never had anyone to fully understand me.