postr/StutterOctober 7, 2025

I'm increasingly convinced my mild (occasionally moderate) stutter is caused solely by excess dopamine (i.e dopaminergic dysregulation). Here's why

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I'm increasingly convinced my mild (occasionally moderate) stutter is caused solely by excess dopamine (i.e dopaminergic dysregulation). Here's why I am 21 year old college student and I've been posting on this subreddit since I was 16 years old (it used to be more severe but has insanely better). I started drinking recently and my mild stutter **does not** go away when I'm drunk. However, it disappears during and the days following my hangover, especially if I drank a lot. Even when I'm totally sobered up I've found I can usually say my name without a one to two second delay for several days, sometimes up to a week. I know my body very well and the difference is pretty noticeable. I searched up what happens during hangovers (especially after you sober up) and low and behold, your brain actually produces less dopamine and GABA for about a week after you heavily drink. I also have a family history of mental illness (schizophrenia, also caused by excess dopamine) so yeah, I feel like I've got a pretty good idea about this. The fact that my solution for this terrible disease that ruined my teenage years is to simply get dead drunk and let my brain reduce the amount of dopamine receptors in response is hilarious. I'm quite literally drinking my problems away. I'll let you guys know if it works.

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