What you're describing is kind of a feedback loop for your brain where the more you avoid something the more scared you may feel the next time. Thankfully, the opposite is true. The more you tackle it the more you've convinced your brain that it wasn't so bad and the easier it gets next time. The phone call is the worst of it but once you get it done you've now told your brain you did it and you're still alive beginning the feedback loop on the flip side! I wrote a long thing about this in the discord so I'll paste it here because I think it relates: I have talked to some really awesome people on discord now and everyone likely noticed from the get go that I'm pretty fluent, I would say not 100% but 95% . The 5% is likely hard to see maybe because i regulate myself when I feel the speech block come on and get past it before it fully takes hold. I'd like to give some advice that helped me tackle this. \[11:01 PM\] About....many years ago I had enough, I got really tired of my stutter, I think it was the phone that did me in...I couldn't stand it \[11:01 PM\] mainly because I would block from the get go, like in regular situations I could start talking and then stutter, like when I get to my name..I'm sure most can relate \[11:01 PM\] but on the phone it was INSTANT... \[11:02 PM\] whether someone just picked up the phone or whether I was in a group and someone asks me something...them not seeing my face scared the shit out of me \[11:03 PM\] and just opening my mouth the invisible wall in my throat would not let sound get through...actually it would but it sounded like i got kicked in the balls if I tried \[11:03 PM\] it's like I made the hole in my throat milimeters tiny from an invisible wall \[11:04 PM\] something happened when I started testing myself...I got to this point where i thought I had enough and if I called I didn't care if they hung up, I just wanted to run some tests...i was curious how long my block would last \[11:05 PM\] My advice is to run this test because it truly changed my life, I found out that my block was not indefinite, I didn't how or why but it would let go on it's own \[11:05 PM\] all my life i thought it could be indefinite, that if i didn't push the word out I would just stay locked \[11:06 PM\] that is not the case...it's grueling but try to see for yourselves...it was extremely grueling, because being in the block was unbearable but it would always let go whether i did anything or not, whether I pushed or kind of gave it a moment...I'd be able to start talking \[11:06 PM\] when I realized this i didn't push as hard, I knew ok I'm making this call, I WILL block like i always do so I'll kinda wait for it to let go...and it worked...and then it got easier because i waited i didn't push so hard so i kinda wasn't as tired when i began to talk \[11:11 PM\] I'm writing up a storm here, wow, I'm sorry but this is the point i wanted to get across more than any, it's that your stutter is likely not indefinite when you block and it gave me massive confidence knowing this because I knew I could get through a phone call with time where-as before I thought I may never be able to spit the word out from the get go thus I was scared to even make the call. When you call, take the moment you need, it will come out! I dare say it always has. I don't know why, I don't know how but the block does not persist indefinitely and knowing this allowed it to be easier. I'm writing to much but any questions please feel free to dm me or...ask me anything! I'd die happy knowing I could help someone with something I had struggled with all my life.