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Im 20 years old, and i feel like i have PTSD-like symptoms because of my stutter. Everytime i speak its like im back in my 10 year old body, which was when I first became aware that I wasnt "normal" ...

Very True we didn't get to enjoy our 20s because of Stuttering Enjoying is a very Different Word i would say we didn't get to live life to our fullest potential of what we can become and do. This memo...

Does anyone else have PTSD-like symptoms due to stuttering severely in the past?

Does anyone else have PTSD-like symptoms due to stuttering severely in the past? I would say I’ve overcome my stuttering mostly. I don’t have severe anxiety around people and public speaking as much. ...

Do not kill yourself man. And I would almost guarantee that if you go out into public for a few months straight and stutter your but off on purpose, then you will be healed to a large extent. You are...

I relate to this way too much, got diagnosed with selective mutism 4 years ago. Was a stupid and suicidal 17 year old, who gave up on my free speech pathologist at school. I'd just get high expecting ...

It's a convenient theory for big pharma to reduce stuttering to a single neurotransmitter. I wish more research nowadays went into understanding the environmental and psychological factors instead of ...

100% can. Stuttering is due to tension. The more tense you are the more you will stutter and more the at ease you feel, the less you will stutter. The thing is, the biggest reason for tension bein...

I believe so. I've met a ton of stutters who experienced a traumatic birth, which has kinda become a pet theory of mine since I noticed....

That’s what happened to me in my late teens. I was dealing with a lot of stress (from a heartbreak, expectations from family, perfectionism, school) but I felt like I had to suppress all of it in fron...

There are some research papers suggesting a correlation between dopamine pathways and stuttering. When we're in need of something (whether it's love, acknowledgement, sex, money) it produces dopamine ...

Can emotional trauma cause stuttering?

Can emotional trauma cause stuttering? 23 male. I’ve asked my parents about my stuttering and they said I never stuttered when I was younger. I started to notice the stutter after my 2 year of depress...

How much do therapists and psychiatrists know about stutter?

How much do therapists and psychiatrists know about stutter? Hi everyone! I was thinking about a therapist I used to see a few months ago. She wasn't necessarily a bad therapist, I just feel like she ...

I mean, I am addicted of PC and phone. Few years ago parents told me that effect bad on my stutter but I couldn't stop because I'm addicted. I have a stutter like, I can't start speaking anymore. When...

Sameee I stutter when speaking in Arabic; as a kid I was rarely spoken to in Arabic and mostly watched English TV so my Arabic was never that good. I personally think my issue is that I was afraid of ...

in my experience the headaches are caused by psychological suffering in reaction to the stutter. A stutter doesn't inflict headaches directly like say if I stabbed you with a knife....

One thing I heard from stutters who got fluent is that it's never about learning fluency techniques. They treated it like a psychological disorder, but there's no quick solution....

No offense, but if that is what your speech teacher told you, he/she/they seem a bit incompetent .There’s no support to the idea that limiting emotions will help with a stutter.Saying that to anyone s...

I agree with speech therapy. traumas are quite complex. It's not as easy as "oh it started 3 years ago, the cause is something 3 years ago". And we are not always healed, just because we think we ar...

I think it’s often a symptom of a mental illness. Such as anxiety, OCD, etc. But in a sense, for those that use stuttering and blocking as a way to suppress their emotions, then maybe that’s a unique...

If we are able to talk about something tells us often our healing progress. When we can talk about our flaws they have no more power over us. Or we are at least in a healing process. When we are emb...