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PPhone calls. and that a lot of job offerts are like this "more info by phone" while I would like to know company name, work hours. adress so I can check the buses to not waste 2hr daily, and things I...

Had to brief some technical stuff to people on a system I’d just learned about myself. No pressure. Might’ve been hungover too....

Weed actually makes my stutter worse. I think weed makes me a little more anxious though, so I believe that’s probably why it makes my speech worse....

I very much relate to this. I find that the more pressure on me for public speaking the more successful I am when it comes to my stutter. I’ve done birthday speeches, oral presentations and stand up c...

Communication Workshop at Work Today

Communication Workshop at Work Today I had a communications workshop in Work planned for today. This has been on the calender for weeks and as each day's elapsed coming up to today I felt more dread a...

So I’ve been on the McGuire program for close to 8 years. I don’t go to the courses anymore. However, I had a stutter where I could barely speak in most situations. In class, I would just not speak a...

Very difficult to tell. My work is most confused at how much my fluency varies and I think at least one coworker thinks I'm faking it. When a face to face interaction is straightforward I have almost...

Drinking makes my stutter vanish and I know what you mean. When I’m hungover I feel like what I say doesn't matter as much so my anxiety about my speech lifts a little. I've learned to almost like han...

> My only concern with a prescription is does it permanently fix the anxiety wiring in my brain or whatever, or will I have to be on it for the rest of my life to keep getting the anti-anxiety effe...

Now that I think about it my heart is pounding sometimes and I feel symptoms of physical anxiety, I guess over many years I got used to living like this and doing the bare minimum it became my new no...

Being hungover might slow your brain down and disable you from thinking about your stutter and thereby dampen your anxiety. Dampening anxiety would mean less anxietyinduced disruption of breathing and...

The Alpha, Beta & Sigma male shit is just a mindset. It can be fixed with raising your testosterone & adopting a idgaf mindset. With me personally I've had waves of all 3 mindsets throughout m...

I’m not gonna comment on the first part of your post, you had enough responses about that already. Propanolol is a beta-blocker , meaning it suppress the fight-or-flight response that the body generat...

Yea exhaustion definitely increases my stuttering/blocks, after work in the evening I seem to be less fluent...

I've used propranolol before and it helped. It doesn't help much with the stuttering itself, but mostly with the physical symptoms of anxiety like short breath, shaking, sweating, etc. You won't have ...

Thank you for sharing. My stutter is definitely worse with anxiety, but I'm not sure if mine is genetic or purely behavioral. I'm open to anything that can overcome this. Whether it's microdosing or m...

If I'm mildly hungover I'll stutter less, but I'll also not care too much about anything...

Nope - stuttering is way worse after a night of partying....

Defense/anger/mood

Defense/anger/mood Does anyone find that their stutter goes away immediately if you have to speak in a quick minded, defensive situation? Whether it be truly self defense or verbally defending one’...

Stuttering in Adults

Stuttering in Adults Hello! I'm a therapist who has recently begun working with an adult who stutters. They had it as a young child and it mostly disappeared by 12 or 13. They did not have any stutter...