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I guess I have a bad experience with speech therapy when I was a kid. I was in it for 3 years, and while my teacher was a very sweet lady, I didn't get much out of the sessions. It was all focused on ...

When I started stuttering in the 3rd grade, my Grandpa had lots of talks with me about it because he did too. He started in Elementary school and outgrew it once he got to college. That was always my ...

i think you have to try out a bunch of stuff to see what works for you. stutter varies between individuals - oh, and of course, we don't even know exactly what it is yet, so there's no sound foundatio...

I've been out of college for 10 months and have started a professional career as a software engineer. My stutter was diagnosed as moderate to moderate-severe when I was teenager. PM if you'd like some...

What worked best for you? This is crippling.

What worked best for you? This is crippling. Hey all, This is my first time posting here, and my first time posting anywhere about my stutter, for that matter. As a little background, I'm 23 and work...

yea i'm prescribed alprazolam also, but I find it doesn't directly help my speech, just relaxes and dulls me and my emotions...

all stimulants help me become fluent, amphetamine being the best as it lasts the longest. Downers such as alcohol, shrooms, lsd, weed make my blocks much worse. ...

The only drugs that eased my stuttering is Alprazolam (Xanax). I've stopped taking those since it's highly addictive and you build up tolerance quickly....

Xannax for me eases the speech blocks. Alcohol has some of the same effect. It's indifferent with weed and psychedelics. Really good cocaine seems to make my speech much more fluent. Not the same with...

Was a pot head for a few years. It had no effect on my speech at all and actually made me talk less in general which I didn't mind. Cocaine I think made me speak more fluently but I was always so out...

[here's a relevant recent thread](http://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/2jvwk1/anyone_else_find_alcohol_andor_marijuana_stops/)....

Weed, shrooms and acid increase my stutter ten fold. Alcohol kinda helps i guess but I'm fluent on mdma and adderall. Don't really do anything now but occasionally drink. ...

Anyone have a history with drugs and alcohol and any comments on how it affected your stutter?

Anyone have a history with drugs and alcohol and any comments on how it affected your stutter? I'm 20 and have experimented heavily with all sorts of drugs. In the end, I find they do not help my stut...

Its really good to hear that you are facing your stuttering and arnt letting it control your life!. As for toast masters i've never done it myself but thhe institute talks about it a lot. There is act...

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CBT(Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) doesn't get enough credit around here. Anxiety doesn't cause stuttering, but stuttering can definitely fuel anxiety. Why take meds for anxiety in hopes to treat stutt...

Happens to me a lot too. I up voted ya!...

I actually start next May! Im in school right now so i dont have time until then. That's good to hear about work. Im making a risky move, but the program im in requires me to speak everyday. I c...

I do what is called shaping practice in the morning which is speaking from a extremely slow rate to normal over the period of 20 minutes. I do this as soon as i wake up and do it while i get ready for...