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Welcome to the group. I’m one of the minority, a female stutterer. I’ve fully recovered after stuttering from age 4-5 until age 70! My stutter was related to childhood trauma and through psychotherap...

Thanks for the comment about the under valued approach to the emotional CAUSE of stuttering. The result of stuttering is recognized as embarrassment leads to social isolation and depression. Not all ...

> recovered my fluency through psychotherapy The psychotherapy approach isn't talked about nearly enough in this forum and the stuttering community in general. I recently commented that all the s...

You are so right about it not being a mental disorder, though the result of stuttering affects your total ability to function in society. It fosters social withdrawal and loss of self-esteem which can...

Oh yes! Everyone reacts differently to things. I wasn’t repeatedly raped or anything but my parents emotionally abused and marginalized me. I can remember being loved and valued up to the time one eye...

So do you believe childhood trauma caused your stutter? Genuine question....

In addition to the psychotherapy I mentioned, my lifestyle did change. I left a high demand religion I hadn’t believed and had been pretending to embrace for 37 years. The inauthenticity had caused gr...

I think it's a neurological disorder that can definitely increase the probability of depression. The neurons that cause the problem are most likely in the brain, so it might be considered mental. the ...

It's a speech impediment that can potentially cripple your mental state. Look up the iceberg analogy of stuttering. It's not a mental disorder in itself, but stress and anxiety exacerbate the stutte...

Mine really did go away! I had to wait until I was 70, but that was 6 years ago and I’ve had no reoccurrence. My stuttering was caused by an abusive childhood and through coming to terms with my resen...

"It's not because it's a flawed therapy, but it's because you didn't work hard enough", I totally agree with you. Bro, you said that the battle against stuttering is not just about seeking fluency, b...

My 2 cents. Ive tried techniques and I experience the "downward spiral". Where I hit that first significant block and all of my thoughts are muddled and I turn on survival mode and try to brute forc...

I think for some people, my guess is most, there is a connection between stuttering and OCD. Because the obsessional component causes a person with OCD to continually think about stuttering, which can...

Yes i think there may be connection... I have stutter from age 4 and got pure o ocd from age 17 . And my ocd is also very bad...

>If medication lowers your anxiety then your mind-body cannot do its job to adjust when you are exposing yourself to this anxiety That's very true actually. I actually have 2 different types of an...

Thank you again! I don't think I have any questions, though I will need to re-read the post a few times to really absorb all of it fully. One thing I notice is that daily benzos (Klonopin) relax my a...

Wow! That post was extremely enlightening! It makes even more sense as my dad has OCD AND also a stutter....

>Connection between OCD & stutter. Age 7 was also the age I developed OCD. Is there a connection? [This](https://www.reddit.com/r/OCDRecovery/comments/xjsttj/tips_for_stutteringocd_observing_t...

Connection between OCD & stutter

Connection between OCD & stutter I've had chronic anxiety since age 4, and my stutter began then too. I used to speak really well before that apparently, and was quite outgoing and charismatic for...

Gee, I never experienced that. I continued to stutter long after menopause. I fully recovered at the age of 70 through psychotherapy dealing with the trauma of an abusive childhood. It never has anyth...