Does the anxiety ever *completely* go away?
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Does the anxiety ever *completely* go away? For the last 4 months, I've been pushing myself *extremely* hard to stutter around everyone and anyone as exposure therapy. I've stuttered around hot girls, groups of people, random strangers, over and over and over again. I've stuttered in situations I would have never had the balls to stutter in before. However, despite this, stuttering around a new person still makes me so fucking anxious. The constant exposure has helped, I'm not as anxious ad I used to be, but it's still always nerve wracking when I meet someone new. And this is after 4 month of intense non-stop exposure... Has anyone been able to get to the point where stuttering around new people does not make them anxious *at all*? Because while I'm sick of hiding my stutter and want to be open about it, the anxiety that precedes every new encounter with someone is so exhausting. I'm so sick of going through the nervousness and the inevitable look of confusion on their face every fucking time I speak to someone new.