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Stammering is ruining my life!!

Stammering is ruining my life!! Backstory: I am a 27 year old man living in the UK and I have a stammer. I have had it since the age of six. It has definitely shaped who I have become. I was born extr...

I'm doing well at my job by ignoring what my manager and his boss tell me I need to do, but instead doing what I know needs to be done. The constant stress of being told HOW to do my job when I was al...

Mental health worker in a mental health residential facility. Deal with people who become mentally unstable and have to remain calm so that my speech does as well...

Stress can cause heightened anxiety which can cause increased stuttering. Aside from the great advice from other people, listen to motivational videos from people that have overcome adversity. I used ...

For most its the other way around. Stuttering causes anxiety and anxiety makes stuttering worse....

My anxiety causes me to stutter, and when I stutter it causes me anxiety. It's a vicious cycle that I needed to break before it got better. I would look into trying to sort your root cause of why you ...

Great that you got a job that you wanted to do and did not let the stuttering hold you back. I also think that you should tell your co-workers and manager - making jokes about stuttering is not ok. ...

I don't have a definitive answer as I myself went through black periods. Stress is a major factor, especially if it led to bad speech appearance. What helps? Yoga, meditation, and speech and psychothe...

I hide it from everyone in my life or atleast i think i am 😂 i dread report my throat hurts after usually on the car ride home.. i just speak slower and notice ppl get inpatient and tap their feet so...

extreme stutter and don't know what to do about it

extreme stutter and don't know what to do about it So I've been stuttering all of my life but it hasn't been that bad. But in the past couple of months (probably due to high amounts of stress in my li...

I’m a nurse practitioner in the military. My stutter is mild but can be exacerbated with stress. I usually do fine face to face but oh man…. The struggle and stress can be overwhelming during phone ca...

Firefighter/EMT for 12 years. We interact with people on a regular, have to speak on radio, which the entire dept can listen to, phone calls, etc. I have a moderate stutter. My fluency fluctuates fro...

Can you please share your journey of managing stutter? How do you managed it under pressure and its effect on your career?...

I’m here for my 14.5 yr old son. He developed a stutter age 4 after a family death, he got speech therapy into 1st grade and he made progress. It became mild. He entered middle school and all of a sud...

First I think no matter what happens, we have to put ourselves first. I was there,I used to value myself based on how anyone would treat me. Second is I always say " Why God is not allowing me to spe...

Mines mild. Made worse by stress and anxiety. Absolutely despise reading because I can’t filter out the words I struggle on. Noticed my stutter improves ten-fold with Prozac - anyone else?...

Well written essay, I enjoyed reading it. It is especially hard to deal with a heavy stammer during childhood, I've experienced it myself. What you said about it breeding compassion, humility, etc....

Mine used to be pretty moderate as a kid but now it’s mild and only really comes out when I’m upset, angry, or nervous....

My stutter is mild to moderate. I’ve had it since I was a kid. I also went to speech therapy. One of techniques I remember them telling me to use was to say the word I was stuck on as I exhaled. It ...

Moderate stuttering, occasionally severe when I’m nervous or just a random severe day...