Alcohol loosens me up enough to where I’m damn near 100% fluent. I was job hunting these last few months because I was looking for a change and I would have a glass of wine to get ever so slightly buzzed. My interviews went really well and were a breeze (I’m fine using this as a crutch because it’s not something I need to do often). Coffee doesn’t do anything for me aside from the temporary energy boost. I also take an antidepressant which, at this point, doesn’t do much for me in regard to my stuttering. But it was never prescribed for my stutter; it was prescribed to me almost 8 years ago because my husband and I were going through a tough time financially and I was so anxious and so stressed and so unhappy that my body was filled with so much tension that I’d have these massive migraines and meltdowns. Should I still be on them since things are so different now? I don’t know. Maybe they still help with my fluency. I do think they affect how I react to stressful situations now. Instead of getting anxious and tense and stressed I have a MUCH more relaxed attitude in rough situations which allows me to problem solve instead of freak out…so maybe I’ll keep taking them because I much prefer to be action-oriented over what I was doing before. And I’m not sure about why my stutter gets bad around my period. Maybe I’m just more emotional/hormonal (??) during that time to the extent I make myself so anxious that no amount of alcohol, calming down or slowing down, or antidepressants helps. I can mostly power through but people can usually tell something is up because my fluency level drops dramatically from what they’re used to experiencing with me. I haven’t heard you speak, but I like to think that you’d be fine in a corporate setting. I’m beginning to think that as stutterers we are sometimes harder on ourselves than others - because I can give a presentation and when it’s over I’m internally berating myself for whatever parts I slightly stuttered on. However, others are messaging me about what a good job I did and how great I sounded. Also, I think most of the time at work people are so concerned about what they’re going to say that I don’t think they really pay super close attention to how I’m saying something. Anyways, let’s keep doing the kind of talking that scares us so stuttering doesn’t win!