postr/StutterOctober 24, 2020

Mouth muscles or brain

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Mouth muscles or brain Hi I don't stutter but I am wondering if this is a speech problem (mouth muscles, vocal cords etc) or brain problem. The other day somehow I just can't pronounce "permanently" I kept struggle with the middle section of the word, tried a few times and thought it was really weird that I was struggling with it, I never had problem with this word or general speeches/words. 3,4 hours later I remembered that earlier I had trouble with the word, then right away I can pronounce it, it's like out of nowhere it just came back to me all of a sudden, no struggling or anything. Is it in the head or in the mouth muscles? I rarely go out so I actually rarely speak/talk and use my mouth, maybe it's because of rarely using mouth muscles then I couldn't say the word? Or is it something in my head that I couldn't pronounce the word? especially all of a sudden it just came back to me without any practice etc. Earlier I said I rarely go out, yeah I kind of just keep to myself. For age I am in my 40s. I can do evertyhing ok and normally, driving, daily things but that incident really scared me , nothing similar like that ever happened before. I also have some OCD and worry about unimportant things too much. Overall not a healthy lifestyle, no real work mostly in the house, a lot of time on my hands doing random things. It's been a few days since the incident and so far everything is fine, can pronounce any words so far. Also before that incident I was pretty stressed for 2,3 days, on top of that I woke up from a headache, then short while later waking up I found myself can't pronounce that word.. Wonder if that got anythign to do with it. And in general I have been stressed for a few years now, some minor stresses but it's been a long time and on going.

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Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & Variability

Subthemes

Overthinking & MonitoringTrauma & PsychologicalStress & Fight/Flight