commentr/StutterOctober 30, 2020

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I've been to a psychologist as a kid. Back then I used to have some weird tics combined with my stuttering. I was a really shy and introverted kid and that was hurting my social and school lives, so the psychologist visits were meant to work on all of those issues. It literally worked for everything *but* the stutter. I became a lot more open to meeting people, talking and accepting my condition. The psychologist read me like a book and he helped me understand where it was all coming from, my stutter is from anxiety and it has a lot to so with past issues and nervous system stuff, and he sorta explained it all to 10/11 year old me in a way I could understand. My stutter itself wasn't cured at all but pretty much 99% of the tics were gone, and I learned to just accept it more and talk anyway and stop thinking people are judging all the time. I had to leave before he thoughtyhe was fone with me because of the cost, but I now think it was a positive experience, even though I used to really not like going there as a kid I don't know if that was the kind of answer you wanted but hope it helps man

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Therapy & ProfessionalEmotional ExperienceCauses & Variability

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Therapy ExperiencesAnxiety & Social JudgmentTrauma & Psychological