postr/StutterAugust 20, 2022

Stuttering gives me anxiety, and anxiety makes me stutter.

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Stuttering gives me anxiety, and anxiety makes me stutter. I used to not GAF about the fact that I stutter, then for some reason, I got a huge complex about it. I started trying to “play it off” and now it’s just become this “thing” where I’m so afraid to stutter. Phone calls, Jury Duty( having to say my name) etc. has just kind of lead to misery. It got way worse when I faced my trauma about 10 years ago. I’ve always stuttered, but now it almost makes me paralyzed.

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Emotional ExperienceCauses & VariabilityAnticipation & Avoidance

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Anxiety & Social JudgmentTrauma & PsychologicalFeared Words & Names