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commentr/StutterAug 8, 2024
3 points

Lexapro is an SSRI used as an antidepressant, and not commonly described as “anti-anxiety medication”. The most likely “side effect” is that it will have no impact on your fluency, especially if yo...

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commentr/StutterAug 8, 2024
1 points

I read this anxiety/low stress explanation again and again, yet I only began stuttering a few months ago, as a 55 yr old adult. I had absolutely no anxiety whatsoever regarding speaking and yet I sudd...

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commentr/StutterAug 8, 2024
5 points

I took the same med, same dose, once I got my first big-boy job and was experiencing much more anxiety over my speech. If there was an effect, it wasn’t an immediately recognizable, life-changing one...

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postr/StutterAug 8, 2024
10 points

Lexapro (escitalopram)

Lexapro (escitalopram) I've been prescribed 5mg of escitalopram to help with my stutter. The thing is, while I do experience anxiety because of my stutter, I don't think I have generalized anxiety. Be...

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commentr/StutterAug 8, 2024
0 points

Hi, your story is interesting, albeit unfortunate for you. May I ask: do you stutter when praying alone? And if so, do you believe that God listens to your actual speech? Is there a difference in...

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commentr/StutterAug 8, 2024
1 points

Hi, Sorry to hear about your stuttering. It turns out that one of the earliest phenomenon studied in stuttering research was exactly what you experience: people who stutter are often much more flue...

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commentr/StutterAug 8, 2024
1 points

Interesting analogy. Anticipating the gunshot is different than anticipating stuttering, though, because it doesn’t involve fear. The real question is, does anticipating stuttering make it more likel...

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commentr/StutterAug 7, 2024
5 points

Talking to yourself a low stress activity where you dont hit your stuttering treshold. Even someone like me with a very severe stutter is fluent when talking to myself alone....

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commentr/StutterAug 7, 2024
4 points

My stutter is anxiety based, sounds like yours is too. My suggestion is going to therapy. Regular therapy, not speech therapy. That's how I got my anxiety in check for the most part....

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commentr/StutterAug 7, 2024
7 points

With stammering/stuttering usually true that talking to oneself or a pet is not a problem. People have a neurological predisposition to stuttering, then when it begins to occur around age 3-5, at som...

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postr/StutterAug 7, 2024
2 points

What is the real reason stuttering is triggered? Were we always wrong? And does sympathetic arousal actually trigger STUTTERING? NEW research: "Skin conductance responses during stuttered and fluent speech in adults who stutter with overt versus covert stuttering profiles" (2024, July)

What is the real reason stuttering is triggered? Were we always wrong? And does sympathetic arousal actually trigger STUTTERING? NEW research: "Skin conductance responses during stuttered and fluent s...

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commentr/StutterAug 7, 2024
8 points

It sounds like you do have a stammer, and a lot of it is probably anxiety based....

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postr/StutterAug 7, 2024
14 points

What is wrong with me.

What is wrong with me. Why is it that I can be perfectly fine when speaking alone, but as soon as I start talking to another person, I panic, struggle to breathe, and stutter over nearly every word? ...

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commentr/StutterAug 7, 2024
0 points

Thank you. I've had this issue on and off since age 4-5, and then constantly from age 7 (genetic and chronic anxiety), with almost all words, including my name. I had speech therapy but it didn't hel...

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commentr/StutterAug 6, 2024
0 points

I explained in the other comment that *detecting a stimulus, labeling, perceiving a threat, emotional attachment (etc), blaming and perceiving this as to be avoided*. Is okay. and this doesn't necessa...

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commentr/StutterAug 6, 2024
1 points

In my opinion: Let's assume that we experience the following vicious circle: >**Vicious circle:** We perceive stuttering anticipation. We view it as a problem. We fear it. We blame it. We rely on th...

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postr/StutterAug 6, 2024
0 points

IYO, How can we turn the STUTTER vicious circle into a virtuous circle?

IYO, How can we turn the STUTTER vicious circle into a virtuous circle? **This is our (negative)** [**vicious circle**](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/1e67dco/what_causes_the_increase_of_ou...

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commentr/StutterAug 6, 2024
1 points

Im 32 and have been w a decent amount of girls but stuttering makes it SO much more difficult. You look like an idiot and it makes you look less confident. Ive abused pills and alcohol to try and calm...

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commentr/StutterAug 6, 2024
2 points

IMO, people with a stutter will probably never be completely fluent. The latest research shows that it's a neurological disorder. However, anxiety and tiredness can make it worse. Personally, I find t...

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commentr/StutterAug 5, 2024
2 points

yea good one. Also people can have doubts for example, when confessing shameful things (when they are praying).. additionally, some people stutter more when they feel excited. If OP is excited to talk...

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