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Need insight on how to heal I’m excited to say that I have coped with my stutter. Although I wouldn’t call it a stutter, it clinically is. It’s more like large speech pauses where I sort of have these tics. For example whenever someone asked me about my problem they always assumed I have Tourette’s and not a stutter. But anyways after 20 years of my tics impacting my life they have left large imprints in me. I can’t describe it well, I speak just fine. But whenever the whole room is quiet and it’s me speaking, my mind knows that all the attention is on me. So I randomly start to have all these tics and blockages again. It’s like a button turned on. My mind is like: “Now everyone has their eyes on you. Make sure you never ever give off the impression that there’s anything wrong with you. And by the way almost everything is wrong with you. They’re expecting you to talk fluently and if you disappoint them then you’ll get treated like you were treated in elementary school. You will get beaten up and laughed at in front of everybody. So never ever stutter in front of them.” And that places a lot of pressure on me and I’ll feel very self conscious. This is honestly the last obstacle I have to overcome for me to consider myself somewhat healed. (Of course I know that I won’t get beaten up) And I don’t know how to overcome it. I don’t have the resources to see a therapist. I need to know how to get out of this trap my mind sets me into. Or even providing a name how this mental dilemma is called would help. I have literally no idea what this is called and how people heal out of this so anything (really ANYTHING) will help, thank you.