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Mental Block Has anyone experienced a mental block after a semi-traumatic event? I’m a college student and every semester I have been very active vocally, not letting my stutter hold me back (For perspective, I’m an English major and discussion is a very important part of class). For some reason, reading out loud has always been what I struggle with the most. At the end of last semester, we had an assignment that was to read our short story out loud. I stuttered on every single word, could barely get any sounds out or catch my breath at all. After about 5 minutes of serious struggling, my professor asked if he could step in to help which I was very grateful for and he read the rest of it. Ever since that happened at the end of November, my stutter has been worse than ever. I am getting so in my head about it that I can hardly speak at all. I haven’t participated in discussions once this semester in any of my four classes and we are seven weeks deep. I love talking in class and I feel like holding back is eating me alive. Has anybody else had something like this happen? I really want to get back to my old self again and get out of my head but I’m just not sure how. Any advice is greatly appreciated!