Please don't give up. I know that sometimes if feels hopeless but after years of hard work I beat stuttering, and if one person can do it others can too. It's not magic, just hard work. Only another stutterer knows the pain and humiliation of stuttering. And before I stopped stuttering completely I got very nervous because as much as I hated it who would I be if I no longer stuttered. It was so much a part of my personality. I had to picture myself as a fluent person, and that also took time until I was comfortable NOT stuttering since everyone who knew me expected me to stutter. I had to disappoint them!!!