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You will be able to speak at your natural pace. You set aside 15 mins during the day to practice the metronome pace. The rest of the day you can speak normally. In the video, he also mentioned addin...

I was freezing up in the weirdest way with my friend in an obnoxiously loud restaurant. I beating my thoughts of being nervous but I felt u was more so fighting myself physically to get words out to...

My stutter gets worse with the feedback loop of how I perceive my speech at the moment. If I have to speak loudly, I guess I can notice my voice shaking or breaking, or the blocks becoming more pronou...

Is stuttering natural or really caused by traumatic events? (also hi! i'm new here)

Is stuttering natural or really caused by traumatic events? (also hi! i'm new here) sorry for long post, i think this is the first time i am being honest and speaking about what my speech impediment h...

Feel you on the shallow breathing for sure, I’ve noticed breathing is huge too. And grab those loud overwhelming environments do get stressful…worst thing for me is ordering a drink at a loud bar...

yes, this is exactly my experience too. same with being quiet for a long time, it feels like my speech flows better first thing in the morning. had a date with a girl at a somewhat loud restaurant las...

I have stutter and I have noticed for a while now that my stutter gets worse when I am under stress, not only at that moment but my overall life....

Same, if i speak for a long time my breathing becomes shallow and that is really bad if you have a stutter. In a loud enviroment i get easily overwhelmed by the noise, that puts me in a weird anxious...

Think it may have something to do with, hmm, idk, the stress of being in one of the most powerful roles in the world?...

Us stutterurs know that fluency is mental work for us. I do believe his now moderate to severe stutter is a sign of overall mental deteriation, and If this is the case, it worries me for my future. ...

Why do long speeches create a feedback of anxiety and stress for you, do you think? Does it differ between when you’re talking to someone new or someone familiar in these situations?...

Same. Long speeches create a feedback of anxiety and stress which makes prolonged fluency difficult. Loud environments also cause you to increase your projection which puts your speech in a non-ideal ...

Dreams

Dreams Does anyone else experience really vivid dreams of yourself not being able to get a single syllable out for hours upon hours it feels like? I wake up extremely winded and feel like there’s a to...

As for me, I felt my stuttering got worse when two of my loved ones passed away. Everyday is a struggle, it is so tiring to live this way! It affect you both mentally, emotionally & physically, it’s s...

See [this ](https://i.imgur.com/1wgPP6G.png)image link. Great comment! I agree that "fear" (as you pointed out) can be conditioned to a speech block-response (such as, fear to speak our name can caus...

Your body has memory. The food service worker function as a signal to your body that is it time to block. It is a trigger. Because it has happened before, chances are it happens again. Your body pre...

unfortunately, some of us have overreactive nervous system, and causes the symptoms that you're facing. Here are some things that helped me: \- Meditaiton: Just like exercising, mediation benefits ar...

Drinking always helped me speak fluently…. Which is why I used it as a crutch and had to quit drinking because it became problematic (1 year sober now). That said, insane background noise either musi...

Retail or food service tends to have a context around speed. For myself, that is usually what trips up stuttering. There is a long line in a coffee shop, you are up next, and the person behind the cou...

Stuttering affected me, a woman, for 30 years of my life and I'm in my 30s. Lots of pain and isolation my whole life. People called me stupid and bullied me. I had tics along with stuttering but was ...