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Finding Hope in Life Hi, I’m in high school right now and I have a stutter for more than a decade now. My stutter has been very severe lately and I was wondering how to have hope in life and keep going in life? My life and social life right now is so bad and I’m just so tired of living. My stutter causes me to miss out on so many opportunities in life. I feel like I miss out on so many connections with people, friends, classmates and if I didn’t have a stutter, I feel like life would be so much happier and easier. I’m in speech therapy for a long time now but my stutter hasn’t improve. I’m afraid of what my future will be. What job will I have, how can I have a significant other, how can I take care of my family while have with a stutter. Everyone at school speaks so fluently and I feel so out of place and behind everyone else. Conversations with my usual friends have been so short lately and my stutter just makes the atmosphere so awkward. They all know I have a stutter but I feel like they don’t enjoy talking to me anymore even though I tried to engage myself in discussions(I noticed I’ve been getting excluded out of conversations) and I feel so unwanted. I think part of the reason why I stutter is my anxiety and I don’t know how to overcome it either. I can’t find hope and my purpose in life. I feel so depressed.