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Ways I've Improved My Stutter Hello all. For the past two years, I've been preparing to move to South Korea alone for graduate school. I've stuttered all my life, so I've made a heavy effort to improve it the best I could to maximize my experiences there. I wanted to share my thoughts on what I tried and the extent it helped. For context, my stutter is significantly anxiety correlated. That is, I seldom stutter when I talk alone and have only a very mild stutter around family or close friends, but it's difficult for me to participate in class or talk to classmates, and I sometimes struggle to get even a word out to people I don't know. God forbid someone tries to ask me my name -- the fail rate is 100%. First, I purchased **Vitamin B1** and **Magnesium** pills at the recommendation of other stutterers. as they've been known to reduce anxiety. After two years on these drugs and being weary of being deceived by the placebo, I definitely believe that they offer positive effects -- just not dramatic ones. For reference, if my average speaking ability was a 5/10 before, this might have bumped it to a 5.5/10 (with 10 being basic fluency or people not recognizing that you have a stutter). I continued looking and purchased KSM-66 **Ashwagandha** Extract and **Phenibut** HCl -- much stronger anti-anxiety drugs, though still available online. Phenibut can only be taken once every two weeks, so I only took it for big presentations or especially stressful circumstances. Sometimes I took these in conjunction with the Vitamin B1 and Magnesium pills. Their effects are like the former but magnified. If my average speaking ability was a 5/10 before, this might have bumped it to a 6 or 6.5/10. Finally, I purchased a **SpeechEasy**. I read many reviews about them -- some excellent, some terrible. I talked to a speech pathologist who helped set me up with one. For those who don't know what a SpeechEasy is, it's a ear piece that repeats your audio back at you with a slight delay. After using it for a year, I definitely recommend purchasing one or getting some Delayed Auditory Feedback equivalent -- the positive impact that it can have on your life is worth the investment. The biggest issue with the device is **allowing** it to work on you. That is, when you're talking to someone, you may feel an urge to talk at a faster rate than the device and/or just ignore the device entirely. It happens to me quite a lot, and of course then the device won't work. However, when I am attentive to the audio of the device, I find my stutter significantly, sometimes even drastically, reduced. And the positive effects continue even after you take the device off. However, it's still **not a cure**. The device doesn't help for the beginning of sentences, which are generally the hardest to say. And you'll still find yourself stuck on other words. Nevertheless, if my average speaking ability was a 5/10 before, this might have moved it to a 7 or 7.5/10. I have even had several people point out how much better I speak with it on. (I've read many people say the effectiveness of the SpeechEasy wears off. Although it's true that I don't talk as fluently as I did the first week I used it, I have consistently observed very distinct positive effects now a year into using it. Again, the key is allowing it to work on you.) Altogether, my speech has become much better in two years time. If my average speaking ability was a 5/10 before, I'd say it's now an 8/10 using all these tools together. I still have bad days, even very bad days, but I have talked in situations better than I ever imagined I could, and I feel far more confident than before about heading to South Korea. I hope my journey here can help others who are looking for ways to improve as well. Final note: I was a part of the clinical trial for **Ecopipam**. I unfortunately didn't observe any changes in my stuttering, though I suspect I received the placebo. Another stutterer at the office I went to claimed he was virtually cured by the pill, so I am extremely optimistic about that once it releases. I've only heard great things about it.