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Any book/website recommendations that provide strategies for defense mechanisms?

Any book/website recommendations that provide strategies for defense mechanisms? **Stuttering and fear:** I think that feelings of fear, anticipation, tension, loss of control and lack of confidence ...

I’m suffering from genetic stuttering, I’ve reached a speech therapy since I was a kid and even a few years ago and it’s useless, I tried almost every technique to reduce it but nothing effective, I’v...

For me when I’m super nervous or stressed sometimes it feels like that I’m paralyzed or having Parkinson’s disease whenever I try to speak, I start shaking and sweating as if I was running or carrying...

Mine is also severe to a point that I even stop talking. Well my workplace is also quite toxic and guess what, the current position Im on, the previous guy committed suicide due to extreme work pressu...

Yes, I do realise that interacting more would just make things frequent for the muscles like any other activity and it would be comfortable doing that. Add to that, post COVID, a sizable time was spen...

It definitely does. Comfort itself is a big factor. I never had the issue of stuttering in my entire life but post-covid I developed stuttering because I was losing fluency by staying at home and not ...

I'm sorry to hear about the shitty in your life, my friend. That saddens me deeply. Nobody should ever experience that. Blobfish_fun, what were the jobs you missed out on because of your stutter? I ho...

Do people who stutter sometimes feel they they can’t breath or literally can’t for a short moment?

Do people who stutter sometimes feel they they can’t breath or literally can’t for a short moment? Please answer this this is important because I’m doing a study: If stutterers feel physical difficult...

Anxiety is psychological not neurological. Also, propranolol isn't this type of drug that affects your ability to think, I take it on a daily basis and it genuinely helps with physical symptoms of a...

I dont know if it's pains or not, but some days, especially after a session of watching porn, the back of my head (where the cerebellum locates) feels heavy, my jaw stuck and there are tics at the ba...

Same. I also feel my brain bursting.. if my subconscious is not ready to speak fluently and I try to do it anyway. so, my vicious circle looks like this: 1. subconscious is not ready to move the spe...

I get extremely stressed. Twice it had happened that I felt like my brain is going to burst. Does that count as physical pain?...

if my subconscious is not ready to speak fluently (too high threshold mechanism). while i'm still giving my brain the start signal to execute speech movements (aka speaking fluently). Then I don't t...

Is stuttering maintained by physiological arousal (that is, the autonomic nervous system)? If so, then likely most people who stutter are not aware of it, I think. What strategies are there to approach our physiological arousal?

Is stuttering maintained by physiological arousal (that is, the autonomic nervous system)? If so, then likely most people who stutter are not aware of it, I think. What strategies are there to approac...

No one stutters BECAUSE of anxiety but fear of stuttering and anxiety around it makes it much worse. There are neurological reasons for stuttering: Being able to coordinate the lips, tongue, lungs,...

A lot of practice reading and doing interviews, and just being in the real world. The more normalised and accustomed something feels to me, the less noticeable my stutter is. Another thing is managing...

I think, that multiple psychological reasons cause the blocking, like fear, stress, past memory, fixation on certain syllables, etc. All of this leads to physiological responses, like muscle spasms,...

Not a doctor but a short time using SRIs worked for my stutter 25+ years ago. Not because they removed the actual act of stuttering but because they gave me a breather from the anticipatory hell of it...

My stutter is significantly worse when anxious. Celexa is the only drug that I’ve taken that reduces it a bit by reducing my anxiety...

Selective mutism (now more accurately labeled as situational mutism) is not present in most stutterers. The vast majority of people who stutter do not have SM. However, it does happen, and I have wo...