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I do most of these, but for the past year my mental health as taken a bad seat. It’s affecting my speech....

Maybe the best approach is “negative practice”—intentionally stuttering so you desensitize yourself to the fear of stuttering. Stuttering is far more than just “psychological,” but the psychological ...

Yeah for sure. I'm no expert either but I've read about psychogenic stutters, they are rare and usually result from childhood trauma but aren't treated by trying to cure the stutter. It usually evolve...

I stuttered for 65 years until psychotherapy. I'm my case it was all psychological and the result of latent anger and resentment from an abusive childhood. It is possible to recover even after 65 year...

Stuttering is a vicious cycle there is nothing there to stop you from speaking ,you are a fluent speaker when you speak alone ,sing ,whisper ,saying in light \ easy onsets and speaking in slow prolong...

Very interesting and not only is it that my speech muscle halt but they tighten up. This can result in soreness in my neck and tongue even....

Fluency is not a bad goal, and I would argue against anyone who says otherwise. It's not the only goal, though. As humans, we like to think we're rational, but we are still motivated by emotional conc...

Tips to improve stuttering from the book: Coping with stuttering (acceptance doesn't mean resignation; work on your acceptance, psychological adjustment and view/response to the feared word; don't wait on a miracle recovery; change your self-image; change the stutterer within you; reduce scanning)

Tips to improve stuttering from the book: Coping with stuttering (acceptance doesn't mean resignation; work on your acceptance, psychological adjustment and view/response to the feared word; don't wai...

Since Stuttering is so individualized and more extensive research is needed, seeking treatment is like buying shoes, one size does not fit all. While some treatments work for some but not for others,...

Thanks for sharing. You make a good point about the pandemic. For me I wonder if stress and grief has made mine worse. I need to start speech therapy again. Sigh ...I also deal with fears of what othe...

That’s so wonderful. Please share your tips here. I’m a 76 year older female who became fully fluent at 70! Mine was emotionally caused by an abusive childhood and ‘cured’ through psychological therap...

Everyone is different. You might be right about letting your guard down around family and friends but how much effort is it really effort to remain taking? Do you recognize it is NOT taking any to rem...

It really is soul crushing at times, but you have to keep going. Cause life gets so much harder if you give up, I know Cause I gave in to substance abuse in my teens. Learning my stutter is neurologic...

Do you block to reduce physical pain?

Do you block to reduce physical pain? In my own experience, yes indeed, I inhibit execution of motor speech movements in order to reduce physical pain. The pain for me is felt in the head (1) after re...

Oh, she was a Ph.D. In Psychotherapy. She is amazing. its not like I'd never had psychotherapy in the past many years, it's just that she had the right skills. In my state, a Ph.D. APRNs can also pres...

Dude, I was just very lucky. She has her Ph.D. and is an APRN, an advanced practice RN. She teaches at our medical school. After 70 years of stuttering, she recognized I had an abusive childhood. Whe...

Mine acted like they didn't care. It was in the 50s and 60s but there were speech therapists then. My parents just didn't make any effort to understand, let alone help. I hear you and I'm sorry...

Mine were the same. They never understood or got me speech therapy. It took until the age of 70 for me to become fluent. I had an abusive childhood and by dealing with it in psychotherapy, I became fu...

So true, usually, except in the case of emotionally caused stuttering. In my case, dealing with my abusive childhood through psychotherapy at the age of 70, fully ‘cured’ my stuttering. Because there ...

I really don't know. Supposedly there's a difference in the blood flow of stutterers in the Warnike’s region, one of two adjacent frontal brain structures. Warnike’s region is pronounced with a V. as ...