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Paradoxical preparation

Paradoxical preparation I’ve read victor frankel’s “man’s search for meaning” and in his book he talks about logo therapy which means therapy by finding meaning. And in there he states a method calle...

Have you been able to tell for certain that working on it by yourself helps, and never hurts? Mine has been particularly bad the past month, and I’ve been doing a lot more practicing words by myself ...

Yes, i can relate. I definitely care way too much what people think of me and it makes me stutter. I even think if people are looking at me when i walk on the street. It's so annoying. Because of tha...

Makes no difference, you can say it to yourself over and over but when it comes to saying it in public you always trip up...

¿Sucker for likes?

¿Sucker for likes? Hello there. Just wondering, whenever you make a post, it can be here or elsewhere: ¿Are you constantly worried about the other people responses? Checking how many likes, responses...

Call ended before I could finish the sentence

Call ended before I could finish the sentence Hello everyone, it's me again, I just tried to order some food from a restaurant for my family's dinner and the person on the other side of the phone ende...

>*" Jack Menear"* This is my attempt to summarize the ex-PWS Jack Menear: * He naturally recovered from stuttering after 20 years of stuttering * When speech blocks are identified as the outward ...

i think it's your mindset, you get nervous and keeps on thinking you are stuttering.. so work on speaking in public in comfort, then it will go away, it's not stuttering, it's confidence. and avoid t...

I agree this one of the most confusing/frustrating things to wrap my head around. Me personally I think of it as having a mental battle with myself. I will say that its like I have to practice myself ...

FWIW, many of us can feel when and how we're going to stutter. I think, in most cases, the "why" isn't understood, even if the PWS believes they have the answer. It's easy to fall into the trap of th...

And as a physicist I totally agree! I am not biased, I just based my opinion on my observation which concern myself and the reasons why I believe I stutter: this is not according to some religious bel...

Feeling a little more confident or less confident, will affect how one stutters. And annoyingly, the more one thinks about it, the worse it can get....

¿Do you relate to hard-to-please relatives in your life?

¿Do you relate to hard-to-please relatives in your life? Hello there. I'm looking for common ground between PWS or to know if this just happens to me. My mother and my brother has a strong "male" per...

fluency has definitely had an ebb and a flow in my life, as well. stress makes it worse. being hyperaware of it makes it much worse....

This is one of the most challenging things about having a stutter. Needing to think clearly about the topic you're trying to talk about while your brain simultaneously tries to think of alternate wor...

Yes you right. In addition, anticipation plays a huge role in it. When you overthink what you will say, then you sttuter. The key, and what I try to do, is to trust your brain and don't think about wh...

Mind races while talking

Mind races while talking It's like when I talk, my brain start an avalanche of different words in my head, like suggesting different ways of saying what I want to say, leaving me confused and overwhel...

Hi, Little_Acanthaceae, Your comments are always wise. OP is now paying more attention to his speech and because stress IS a head thing, the extra little stress about his speed and diction is affectin...

I think it's the same for a lot of different issues, no one can control their thoughts in the moment. If I tell you "don't think about a red firetruck" you are going to think about a red firetruck. ...

Yeah, it can be a state of mind because when I stutter I feel bad and when I have periods of fluency I feel good with myself and have a clear mind. It's like action and reaction. Probably it's a su...