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Anyone Use Support Groups?

Anyone Use Support Groups? Howdy all, long time stutterer first time writer. Recently I decided to take an interest in my stutter again, after giving up on traditional therapy about 10-12 years ago. ...

I focus on my mental state and try to psych myself out. My anxiety will get to a point where I reach a point of "fuck it" and just go for it. Getting over that hump will make me much more fluent whe...

"Why can't you just not do it?" - Favorite from an ex....

I see a psychologist and psychiatrist for help with anxiety, mainly caused by speech. My thought being anxiety effects my speech why not minimize it? I've been attacking the problem from a different ...

Doctors don't know jack about stuttering. Hell, most speech therapists don't know much. You need to find a qualified speech therapy with a speciality in stuttering who you feel comfortable with. If th...

Have you guys gone to the doctors about your stutter? If so, what did they recommend?

Have you guys gone to the doctors about your stutter? If so, what did they recommend? I went to a speech therapist before and "graduated". My stutter was reduced but not vanished. It was only reduced ...

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i've heard the startle "theory" before too. I've also heard of silent therapy where you dont talk for 3 weeks, then you can whisper for the next 2, then you can talk in a few words only the following ...

"Its like there are a thousand ideas in your head and they are all tying to come out at once" no. its not. its a (near) complete mind+body shutdown....

There's something mythical about phrases like these: "Just breathe" "Just relax" "Your mouth's talking faster than your brain can speak" "I didn't notice it, it's not a big problem"...

Folk myth about stuttering that you heard of

Folk myth about stuttering that you heard of **Post the myths you've heard of and let's discuss them. Here's mine** A folk myth that i heard of was that scaring someone added/removed stutter to/from ...

I did, sort of. My first name is not really common and I kept having a hard time saying it despite managing to control my stutter everywhere else. So I changed mine to something much easier for me to ...

The reason we stutter more when we have to say our name is because there is no alternative for it. You can replace Bus Stop with Stop, Bus Stand, Stand where the bus comes, where can I get a bus from,...

It's basically a tic tac that increases saliva, nothing extraordinary. I'm not ruling out placebo, but i've tried other "cures" without any luck....

I decided for one year to go by a "different name" and yet stuttered on it just the same as my normal name. So yes, and all it did was make me realize I could stutter just as much on a much shorter na...

That pointless. You stutter on your name because it's psychologically loaded. ...

What happens when you start stuttering on your new name? ...

Anyone thought of changing their first name?

Anyone thought of changing their first name? [deleted]...

There’s already a lot of good ideas already. What I would suggest is focus on just letting people know who you are. That may be just a few people at a time. But I wouldn’t focus on those people who t...