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Adult speech therapy Have any of you started speech therapy as an adult and found it to be helpful? I feel like I need to do something about my stutter because I literally cannot do an interview to save my life, and fear I will never be able to have a career when I graduate because of it. I also find it very difficult to make friends and even to talk to the friends I do have. I’m totally fine ‘accepting my lot’ and living with a stutter, but I really need to get to the point where I can exist as a functional adult. If any of you have suggestions please let me know. Another note, I feel that my stutter is really purely psychological, and I know that since I can usually read aloud just fine when I am alone. I feel that I only stutter in social situations because I believe that I will, and the cumulative years of memories of horribly embarrassing stutters holds me back. Surely this should be a solvable problem, right? Like some combination of therapy, speech strategies, practice, and possibly medication, should be able to greatly alleviate this problem, right? I don’t consider myself an anxious person, at least in regards to everyday life, but my stutter certainly causes absurd amounts of social anxiety, which in turn make the stuttering worse, and so on… Have any of you had positive experiences with anxiety medications as treatment for stuttering? Also if there is anyone here who has “beaten” their stutter, or at least gotten to the point where they can do many of the things they never thought they would be able to do, please let me know how you did it. Any tips are greatly appreciated.