Well, in general I’m a pretty confident person, but as soon as I’m put in a speaking situation that confidence drops. I experience incredibly bad anxiety, and Part of it is because I get anxious whenever I know I have to speak to someone (whether it’s make a phone call, go to a drive through, just talk to people In general) Now as for depression, there have been times where having a stutter has made me depressed..frustrated…angry? Especially when I’d be in a situation where I’d stutter and it made me feel bad about myself. For example, I’m 23m, last year I graduated with my bachelors and took a gap year. During the gap year (so last year) I worked as a special education teacher. A part of the job is running IEP meetings. The first IEP meeting I ran I stuttered horribly…and as a result my mentor teacher offered to speak for me during future IEP meetings. She was looking out for me which I appreciate, but in the end it made me feel like I wasn’t competent enough to perform the job. I was definitely depressed/angry/frustrated because of that. Those situations happen pretty often.