I also sometimes tell people that I stutter before I talk, and it becomes much easier to deal with. My stutter worsens with social anxiety, so with the social anxiety away, I can talk with ease. The only problem is though that people say to overcome social anxiety, you need to force yourself to open up and talk to people. So its a paradoxical situation for us stutterers....because we need to be comfortable enough to be able to talk in the first place.