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Reading your post, I began laughing as what you typed perfectly described what I have been feeling, holy shit...

I can't believe this book is not in the sidebar

I can't believe this book is not in the sidebar Hey guys, so I've been stutterring since I was about 8 and up until recently I thought that I might have to live with this issue, even thou I have been ...

Practice. I am an extremely unsocial person typically and I have had to both do and give an interview. The best advice is to know what you will need to say and be prepared. If you know everything t...

Stuttering and giving job interviews

Stuttering and giving job interviews I've done a couple of informal job interviews in the past few weeks, where the company I work for is looking to hire and I've been conducting the interview alongsi...

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I just wrote a genetics paper on stuttering. Unrelated to the paper, I read an article written by a SLP from several decades ago. The jist was as stutterers, we view our stutters as their own entity. ...

Yes, I think we're on the same page, but getting there from different angles. There is a lot of mind-reading that goes on in the minds of people who stutter. And whether that gets interpreted as "[ho...

Ah, but it is only during the moment of stuttering that there is an increase in salivary cortisol levels (an index of stress). People who stutter don't have chronically increased salivary cortisol lev...

I agree with you. But, I wonder if we (as a group) are using the same definition of "stuttering" -- as in are we discussing the behavior (actual disfluencies) or the condition (being one prone to disf...

So there have been times in the past where ive felt very confident for whatever reason and have been as fluent as anyone. Lately though ive been through some hardships and have been blocking more than...

That's strange. I'm confident that stuttering is intertwined with social anxiety, which in itself is strongly linked to self-esteem. Can't give references now but will try to research later....

Come on guys, top search result on google scholar with keywords stutter and self esteem. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094730X0300010X Actually looks like stuttering does NOT aff...

I think I see where you're coming from. But in this case, couldn't over-thinking still fit into his framework of people "[holding] the minds of other men, not objective reality, as his ultimate psycho...

Hey thanks for clarifying that. So, if our working definition of 'low self esteem' is a lack of agency, low self efficacy, external locus of control, I'm not satisfied with Braden's description (or,...

Hi iciaguy. On second thought, I'd like to rephrase that last question. Think I may have over-simplified it! Branden's premise seems to be that the core problem isn't even the type of thinking, but th...

> can we affect change by thinking differently? Abso-freaking-f*&king-lutely. That is the basis for a lot of clinical psychology and some speech therapy (including stuttering therapy). The use...

I'm actually very happy with #1, because most people I encounter really don't know what a stutter is or what it's like to feel that way. I typically find people who do #1 more kinder and patient with ...

Being called out on your stutter.

Being called out on your stutter. So, lately I have been called out on my stutter on a few different occasions. This has been complete strangers, who calls me out after just a minute of conversation. ...

I do have anxiety but I'm sure I can work on it....

Stuttering and self-esteem

Stuttering and self-esteem Stuttering is linked to low self-esteem, but why and how can we improve it? I've been thinking about this today after reading about the "The Psychology of Self-Esteem" by N...