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This has always baffled me as a stutterer, particularly with blocking. I feel like it's a clue or some kind of insight into the mechanics of my how brain short circuits. Just can't figure it out tho....

Tips to improve stuttering according to the book: Freeing Your Inner Fluency: A Dramatically Different Outlook on Stuttering-CTI Publications (2015) by Dahm

Tips to improve stuttering according to the book: Freeing Your Inner Fluency: A Dramatically Different Outlook on Stuttering-CTI Publications (2015) by Dahm **Step 1: Analysing phase** * Experiment a...

Good response. By now for me after years of trying to hide the fact I stutter, my brain cannot simply “not hold back”....

Are you ready for the step that comes after "i'm done trying to hide it?" I was so good at "hiding" my stutter, a family friend who's a SLP had no clue. But after years, I developed debilitating blo...

Tips to improve stuttering according to the book: 'Stuttering anxiety self-help: what 100+ pws taught me'

Tips to improve stuttering according to the book: 'Stuttering anxiety self-help: what 100+ pws taught me' 1. don't hide stuttering. Become comfortable and unashamed to talk about your problem 2. don't...

This is difficult to focus on specifically because there's a good amount of fear on it. You're going to have to make sound (and most likely stutter). That's the only way through it. I would figure out...

In my experience, voluntary stuttering was a huge factor in quickly helping me go from 100’s of blocks/day to only a few - and having smoother speech than before. It gets right to the root of the pr...

Tips to improve stuttering - according to the book 'Easy stuttering'

Tips to improve stuttering - according to the book 'Easy stuttering' This post consists of tips to improve stuttering which I got by reading the book: Easy stuttering by Sheehan, see [PDF document](ht...

I can totally relate to “everything’s perfect but I got this stutter” part....

All those things you mentioned about your stutter are actually very very common! I bet you even avoid eye contact. If you are like most of us here, the issue is probably *only* that anticipatory fea...

I recently went to a doctor for my anxiety, brought on by stuttering or the thought of having to talk, etc. I can say that the anti anxiety meds really do help. Even if I stutter that gut wrenching fe...

Anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds can help to alleviate distressing emotions for a while but they won't tackle the root causes. That takes a lot of effort, courage, introspection and some form of...

Making eye contact tricks your brain into feeling less shame and shows the listener that you are present and actively saying something. Remember, that forcing words out is what *causes* blocks. Also...

You are completely describing having an unwanted automatic, valsalva maneuver. It’s causing your blocks. It can probably be addressed without medication - just some knowledge and hard work....

Eye contact really helps a lot. Maybe bcz when we make eye contact, it means that the other person is expecting us to say something which kind of forces us to say it. Not sure about repetitions but it...

There’s also the idea that impactful stuttering is a neurological condition caused by an inappropriate unconscious valsalva maneuver in response to the *memory* of people laughing at your repetitions....

Are your facial tics due to trying to avert your eyes from the listener? Do they happen as much if someone cannot see you? (This isn’t necessarily a measure bc you may have internalized the eye cont...

Awesome! You are doing such hard work! Do you think you are ready to work on making eye contact? You can just do it with yourself in a mirror when making a call. Holding normal eye contact is now...

Breathing WAS a help for me, but it came through meditation. I literally listened to the same cassette tape (I’m old) for years, every night. It was a meditation tape that focused on breathing pattern...

I"m just writing a new message bc my first response was full of confusing edits. I have literally done the agreement-fist when reading lots of your comments because I think you get right to the core ...