I woke up one day and inexplicably started stuttering.A month and a half later and the problem has persisted and, in some respects, worsened.

I woke up one day and inexplicably started stuttering.A month and a half later and the problem has persisted and, in some respects, worsened. Allow me to provide context.If I sound at all vain or prideful, I apologize, as I normally wouldn't engage in such self-aggrandizement, but I feel as though I have to give you guys the full story so that you understand my situation better. I am a 17 year old Greek-American boy living in Cyprus.I have been bilingual my entire life, speaking both English and Greek, with my English being the better of the two.I have had a stutter when speaking in Greek since I was 11, and a very heavy one at that.When saying a sentence that contains 15 words, I'd stutter saying 3 or 4 of them, drawing my speech out and making things very uncomfortable for both me and those around me. My stutter in Greek has always been a great source of embarrassment for me, and because of it, I am quite shy and timid at school.There are certain days where I might strike up a conversation with a stranger or friend or family and not stutter at all, but I usually revert back to my old state of disfluency within a day or two. My one consolation was that, while I may have been a stutterer in Greek, the situation was completely reversed in English. As far back as I can remember, my English has been beyond excellent, in writing but especially when speaking, mainly due to my confidence and skillful use of advanced vocabulary when speaking, as well as frequent use of humor and fast joke delivery style.These things, in conjunction with my somewhat pronounced Queens accent, have led to many people saying that I sound like a ''Car-salesman from the 50s''.And because of the fact that I feel very confident when I speak in English, I can convey my ideas very well, and i get frequently get complimented by people for my humor, intelligence and wide knowledge on a diverse range of topics.I like to think I am not a vain person, but I always found it relieving to go from being the guy who gets funny looks when talking, to the guy that a lot of people like to talk to.I never find myself at a loss for words either, I just would start talking without a second thought and never find myself at a loss for words or at a block.Things started getting even better about 3 years ago when I started acting as a Dungeon Master for a D&D group with some friends of mine, which let me practice accents and jokes when I assumed the roles and personalities of different characters in the stories I would make, because it gave me an opportunity to further refine my speaking and narration skills while having fun with my friends and making them laugh.Thanks to these skills, I have participated and been awarded in many student political debate programs. Now, I'm not saying that I \*never\* fumbled or stuttered on a word here or there, as I do sometimes stutter on a word or two every now and then, but if I did, it happened rarely, and would usually be an isolated event, not a consistent difficulty, so I would forget about it completely within a day and it would disappear..Strangely enough, I also have difficulties operating off scripts, or thinking of what I'm gonna say in advance, which is why I usually just make up whenever I'm gonna say as I go along, even when I'm delivering speeches. In addition, I do have a tendency of slurring certain words , like ''senator'' or ''representative''), but I don't struggle to say them like I do with words in Greek.I also have a habit of practicing my accents and personalities for D&D characters by going for long walks and striking up conversations with strangers under a pseudonym and using an accent Southern American accents are always fun to do). Well, this all changed about a month and a half ago. I woke up one day and encountered my normal occasional difficulty saying the same 4 or 5 words in English that usually give me trouble, but since it was the summer and as such, I didn't have much work to distract me, I had more time to focus on it.I didn't give it much thought at the time, but as the day went by, I started gradually freezing up more and more, with the problem continuing in to the next day. By this point, I was really starting to freak out, causing me to think about the stutter even more, leading to me stuttering even more, creating a sort of self-sustaining loop of speech degeneration. My speech reached it's nadir when I visited some relatives of mine in the UK with my family, where for the first time in my entire life I spoke with the same level of difficulty in English as I do in Greek.I felt awful because I began to think that this stutter was here to stay, and because of it I wouldn't be able to follow any of the career paths I had had my mind set on because they required a person who could speak well.I couldn't become a lawyer, because no fool would would want to delegate the job of persuading people that he is in the right to a guy who sounds about as charismatic and persuasive as a third world dictator.i couldn't become an officer in the US military, because having the troops be led by a guy who sounds like he's slow can't be great for morale.And I couldn't be a politician either, because who the hell would want to elect a guy to represent their needs and concerns when he has trouble getting his own opinions across.I hid my concerns from my parents to avoid stressing them out on our trip, but it was the only thing I could think about from the morning until the night. Things changed when my mother took me for a visit to the Imperial War Museum in London though.I have always been enamored with military history, particularity when it pertains to countries I have some blood relation to (I am part English on my Dad's side), and after spending the entire day in the Great War exhibit, I was so touched by the sacrifices and heroism of the British soldiers that I forgot all about my stutter.After that, without even realizing it, as I spoke to my mother about what we had seen in the museum I reverted right back to my old stutterless motor-mouth joke-telling self, only noticing the change when my mother, upon seeing that I wasn't quiet anymore, happily commented ''I see my little boy's gone switched back to ''never-shut-up'' mode''.I was overjoyed that my problem was gone, and when i returned to my relative's home, I spoke to them the way that I normally speak, chalking up my initial difficulty to ''I kinda slow down when I have jet lag''.And for the second half of my trip, I had a damn good time, free of any worries about stuttering. After I returned home, my problem went away entirely, but I would still think about the nasty fright the experience gave me from time, so I didn't stop thinking about it entirely.But after about a week, I woke up, and midway through the day, it happened again: I started freezing again on certain words.I immediately started shitting bricks, worrying that the problem was coming back, and by doing so I only exacerbated the issue by worrying about it.The problem persisted and got worse, though it never reached the levels I had experienced when I first touched down in the UK. Midway through July, i went off the a Christian Camp for 2 weeks, and the night I came back i was in an excellent mood, and forgot all about my difficulties and spoke normally again. In fact, the very night that I returned, I ran into a friend of mine who is an atheist, and we had a friendly, if a bit intense, debate on the voracity of Christianity and the Kalam cosmological argument. In my opinion, I performed better in that debate that in any other debate I have ever participated in in my entire life, never once stumbling,fumbling,stuttering or being at a loss for words, and always using the right counter-argument at the right time.I was even able to convince this friend of mine to start coming to a bible study group with me, which he has (I'm not promoting my religion right now by the way, I'm just providing context).And, for a time, I once more forgot all about my stutter.Then, a few days later, guess what fucking happened?I started stuttering again, but this time it was accompanied by a a completely new problem:I began to struggle to find the words I needed to say to convey my ideas, emotions and intentions with concision, leading to me saying ''uhhh'' and ''umm'' more in the last 2 weeks than in the previous 6 months.I also found that the delivery of most of my jokes was butchered and hamfisted. And then the problem goes away for a while, only to come right back not long after. I have already had to endure a stutter for the last 6 and a half years of my life in Greek, with all the shame and difficulties that I'm sure all of you know all too well.I really can't imagine having to go through the same problems in English too.This hot and cold system of stuttering and then not stuttering is driving me crazy.I have deduced that the the problem will go away as long as I stop thinking about it and pay it no heed when it occasionally appears for a word or two, but that is obviously easier said than done. To make matters worse, there is a ticking clock element to my story as well. You see, because i performed so well at the various student debates I attended this year, my School selected me as it's representative in a sort of pan-Cyprian debate program which will e taking place in a few weeks, so I have to fix this problem by then or I will make a fool out of myself in front of hundreds of people, which I will have a very tough time getting over, which will no doubt solidify the stutter. This is my first time writing a Reddit post, so if I have droned on for longer than i should have, or repeated myself, I apologize, and I thank you if you had the patience and the empathy to listen to some nut on the internet complain about his problems. I've been bottling up my frustrations for some time now, and I needed to find an outlet to vent.If any of you have any advice , I would be greatly appreciative.Hell, even if you don;t have any advice, if any of you have run into a similar situation, I'd love to hear your experience too.Thanks.