commentr/StutterFebruary 20, 2020

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Worked in a hospital for 7 years dealing with patients/nurses/doctors/family all day, every day often during difficult times for all. Now I work in receiving for a camera company interacting with truckers, delivery people, customers, vendor reps... etc. both on the phone and in person. I never thought I could do these two jobs with such high levels of socialization but I found jumping headfirst into them changed the way I thought about it and approached the conversations and interpersonal interactions as a whole. I’m not super social on the best of days, and I’m sure my stutter over time made that worse or more anxiety-inducing. I somewhat recently was also prescribed Zoloft for depression/anxiety and while it doesn’t “make my stutter better” it has relieved much of the anxieties that sometimes precede these interactions (also, happier in general overall and I’d assume that helps a bit too). Jump right into those convos. If you stutter or block, so what? Doesn’t change a thing about you. If someone gets impatient or is rude about it, it’s on them. I’ve found most people either don’t care about it or are pretty endeared by it, to be honest. If you’re constantly around people making you feel bad or “less than” because of a stutter, you’re hanging with the wrong people! Edit: I’d like to add that it’s great everyone at your job seems to support you! Let that power you up, lots of people don’t even have that!

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School & WorkEmotional ExperienceAnticipation & Avoidance

Subthemes

Employment & CareerAnxiety & Social JudgmentHiding & Concealment

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ssris_snris_antidepressants