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Can anyone else relate?

Can anyone else relate? In the morning or whenever I first begin to speak that particular day, I’ll have a really noticeable stutter. But as I’m continuing talking and my vocals starts to warm up and ...

I think there are many different types of speech blocks: * freezing of the speech muscles as a stress response to the fight flight freeze fawn. For example, if I would avoid stress management * not n...

This happened to me the other day, and I've never had an issue with stuttering before. It could have to do with the fact that anxiety and excitement are very similar physiologically. JP Collins has so...

🤣 my stutter is mild but gets worse with stress. As long as I plan ahead and reduce my anxiety, I'll be fine. And most communication will be done probably through email...

Hey there! Stuttering runs in my family, I used to work a lot of shit jobs in my teens and early twenties because I couldn’t speak without stuttering and had an immense amount of social anxiety. I’ve ...

I get you. I'm 47 and I'm realizing I have a lot of pent up anger I never dealt with because of stuttering my entire life. Between being bullied in school, to feeling trapped in my body because I can...

I'm not going to discount the fact that stuttering has neurophysiological roots. I'd be wrong. And while medication may certainly address neurophysiological aspects of the problem, I'm of the opinion...

I really don’t agree with really anything you said about fear from my personal experience. Although it seems the onset of the habit of stuttering where the neural pathways were laid may have been due ...

Its is cause by mostly 2 reasons > 1. Fear Let me clear our brain cannot distinguish between life threatening situation and simple easy daily life non - threatening situation I.e ( public spe...

If i force myself to talk when I'm having a block it'll hurt my throat, and if I really push myself ill lose my voice for a few days...

Here is more refined post . Stuttering is a response of our body in order to help us to achieve the desire goal that you have set in your mind. Its deep-rooted , sub-concious mechanism of protect o...

Exactly this. Starting in a regular exhale while making regular eye contact can reduce blocks a huge amount. Never sure why so many are reluctant to try it...

How can I ACTUALLY stop stuttering?

How can I ACTUALLY stop stuttering? I’m new to this sub. I’m 16 and have stuttered since I was 6, so for 10 years. From 6 to 7 years old I stuttered a little but it went away, but as of the age of 7, ...

I think cause our anxiety is heightened because of that question. For me taking a deep breath helps a little bit since my breathing gets short when I stutter....

Stuttering is a vicious cycle there is nothing there to stop you from speaking ,you are a fluent speaker when you speak alone ,sing ,whisper ,saying in light \ easy onsets and speaking in slow prolong...

I did not tense just now, this is a very common phenomenon I feel like and could it possibly depict that maybe stress/anxiety in situations around people are the true cause for the that tenseness?...

Thanks for sharing. You make a good point about the pandemic. For me I wonder if stress and grief has made mine worse. I need to start speech therapy again. Sigh ...I also deal with fears of what othe...

I always stuttered since childhood but it definitely became worse in my 20s right now, the covid pandemic had a significant impact on it and anxiety, I don't know what to do besides speech therapy, I ...

I know how stress can change things. Try to return to your best self, the one who participated in clubs and did things with your friends, and you will have new friends in college. Return to your healt...

What helped for me was going to speech therapy for a while (a couple of years) AND learning to not care about my stutter. To truly adopt the attitude of “If I stutter then it’s no big deal,” Much easi...