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Speech uses very little air, but it requires uninterrupted airflow. That airflow can be disrupted by fear or by mechanical pressure that limits diaphragm movement. In many cases, fear amplifies a pre-...

I'll admit fear is an amplifier, but that's constantly happening to me even if im alone, and speaking to myself, an animal, or singing the air never feels easy, it always feels like it’s meeting resi...

people have different reasons of stuttering so it would be difficult to suggest one thing for me it's anxiety and not being able to control breath while speaking, so if i am calm and if talk slow whi...

Was there anything that you did that helped? It feels like I’m in constant fight or flight mode whenever I’m being perceived...

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAA [RANT] It’s gotten to a point where I want to rip my tongue out every time I interact with people and that fear of stuttering is making it worse. It’s been almost 17 years and I can’t r...

Bro , I also stutter extremely bad. Words can't describe the feeling when you can't be social and do the stuff like anyone else does. Especially when you know you have so much potential in life but th...

70% of 18 yo 29 year olds where? Who was asked? What's the pool? Was this a survey at a socially inept University or did they ask hundreds of millions of people around the world? Again, scrutinise you...

If you are stuttering when alone I would assume you have significant anxiety and stress. I have been taking medicine for depression for years. It would not be an issue if you can talk to someone who m...

Seriously, removing myself from environments with rude & stressful people paid dividends. I wasn’t able to do that as a child — which is when my stutter was most pronounced....

As long as I remember I had a stutter. I don't think this is because of anxiety. If you overcome your stutter and had any tips. Feel free to guide me. Thank you...

I stutter, not much but sometimes it increases under pressure. My high school girlfriend found it cute and we are together for more than 12 years. I dont stutter when i am with her. Life is strange, s...

I went back for a tune up after about 5 years. I noticed disfluency creeping back into my speech a bit. This year has been rough personally. Most stressful of my life. I am noticing more disfluency ...

I’ve gone through speech therapy twice in the past. I know the techniques but always relapsed. I do notice when I ingest caffeine and sugar my fluency is affected pretty badly that day, so since I’ve...

Its all tied to stimulation. Less stimulation during summer break compared to peak stimulation during exam periods/deadlines. Its normal for all stutterers and kind of unavoidable. My stuttering goes ...

Question about curing

Question about curing Hello, my stuttering goes through cycles. The first one is during the summer break, especially in August, when it decreases significantly. Then, with the start of the school year...

Deep breaths are not a cure but it does help to reduce anxiety which in my experience makes stuttering worse...

Consider Paxil. 10 or 20md daily. It’s for social anxiety. And works like a charm for stuttering. An old school doc started me on it decades ago, I said but I’m not depressed. He said perhaps but yo...

This has nothing to do with stuttering. Plenty of people have extreme social anxiety and they don't stutter. People that stutter have different brain activity than non stutterers, this has been proven...

As a speech pathologist I have never known any stutterer whose stuttering was not affected by stress. The Valsalva response is triggered by stress which is the causal factor in stuttering. When I gain...

I agree man.... English has a requirement of atleast 5-words per sentence language. The language I speak requires 8-words per sentence i.e. I have to speak at least 8 words with a high speech rate in ...