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Anyone tried OCD therapy for your thought that triggers stuttering?

Anyone tried OCD therapy for your thought that triggers stuttering? Stutterers stutter because of: \- neurologic \- genetic \- psychologic. In my experience: "I doubt that I can speak fluently" (th...

I would say it definitely made it worse for me. I mean, my mom died of lung cancer when I was 9, and a year later my dad quite literally went to the store and never came back. And when I was still wit...

So, I am just like you. 18, male, mild stutter among friends, strong stutter with parents or teachers etc. I HAVE been to speech therapy a few years ago, however I stopped because it stressed me out. ...

No, since my stutter is a psychological issue and various speech therapists couldn't help, I basically stopped trying, except for meditating. I will look up these devices as this is the first t...

I've never taken or been offered meds for stuttering. Yes, I'm probably depressed but never saw a connection with stuttering. I don't stutter now after 30+ years of stuttering and I'm still depress...

Anti-depressants help relieve symptoms of depression and anxiety which gives some respite, but they don't treat the root cause of depression. That takes a lot of inner work by yourself or with a thera...

well ok, depression meds have never helped my stutter but they have helped my depression. I cant think of any mechanism other than relaxing vocal chords via meds reduces a stutter. Is there a any oth...

Depression and stuttering weren't linked for me. Took a while to figure it out....

Yes! In my case, I can recall a traumatic event that birthed my stuttering....

I swore off speech therapy for life after doing an intensive course in 2010 which seriously messed up my mental health, gave me various avoidance behaviours and feelings of shame common to stuttering ...

'Different factors'. I believe those factors turned into a vicious circle bringing on more nervous disorders. Took me years to unravel and accept but still not sure this had an effect on my stutter...

Childhood Trauma and Stuttering

Childhood Trauma and Stuttering Do you believe there's a connection? I grew up in an alcoholic home where rage was normal most weekends. I knew fear from a young age, didn't understand it till I wen...

Help from stutterers

Help from stutterers whenever I talk to people especially new people or cashiers/ restaurant staff and even worse with larger groups of new people even if I’m with someone I’m comfortable with I stutt...

Even when alone, I still have problems with certain letters, like D If it’s psychological, it must be deep rooted...

I do, but still think you're oversimplifying the issue and relying too much on the psychological aspect and the power of positive thinking. As an example, why does CBT for anxiety not improve stutteri...

We stutter because of a neurological predisposition which means, tensing the mouth by perceived stresses. It only means that the chance is higher that perceived stresses impact us to stutter. The psyc...

Nothing medically/professionally recognized as far as I know, but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s helped countless people. As I said before, some stutters are caused by anxiety, some by TBI’s, ...

It makes sense that stuttering behavior causes emotional issues that exacerbate it. It seems like you aren't taking the strong genetic component of stuttering into account, unless, of course, you coun...

"People tend to grow out of stuttering at around their own respected teenage years," I agree, according to a paper, 80% of them overcome stuttering. Adults also overcome stuttering but much less. Wh...

If you are 'new' trying to speak fluency it's possibly tensing of face. If you thought about fluency a lot, then it's not, then it's definitely 100% psychologal because you hate stuttering and not al...