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Yep, thats pretty much my experience. I started to stutter when i first started gaining a sense of self, about 7 or 8. Before that, I was a very energeric kid, I remember always having quick, jumbled...

I get these sort of headaches when stuttering too. I noticed that when I'm stuck on a word I will sort of stop breathing and just try to get the word out. It's a bad practice and I'm working on it, bu...

Yes!!!! I am the same! Thinking and worrying about sentences/phrases that I could/might stutter on is INSANELY draining and causes a headache. If I am sleep deprived even a little, I will get a headac...

>Reading out loud in front of people, or talking to big groups of people without stuttering, now that would yield some real progress with unlearning our speech hesitancy. I agree. The problem come...

> I second guess every sound I make (causing a stutter). " I second guess every sound I make (causing a stutter)." In my opinion, even if I don't try to 'second guess' or look for stresses but I ...

Yes and no. Everyone has a different name for 'reasons to stutter', some call it 'perceived stresses' other call it stressors. Yes you would still stutter, if 'forgetting that you stutter' only cle...

So is happiness always conditional? If we remove our fear "I will certainly stutter on this letter", then it will make us happy because we are one step closer to fluency but I don't think it works lik...

Just guessing... You're either doing something different with your breathing, or you're tensing muscles. Some physiological that you are doing is causing a headache. Very skeptical of the "brain powe...

headache when trying not to stutter

headache when trying not to stutter I’ve recently been trying to practice saying sentences that I always stutter through and like trying not to stutter gives me headaches?? Like it takes so much brain...

I found that once I stopped thinking about the stuttering and focused on what I *wanted to say*, everything goes kind of ok. (Of course it took years of speech- and psychotherapy to get there…) Congr...

I've researched the pros and cons to using benzodiazepines for treatment in anxiety and stuttering. For me it's only temporary until I can get on the ecopipam trial or deutrabenazine which is also bei...

Same exact situation... would you agree that if you wiped your mind of all stuttering incidents and forgot that you had a stutter, you wouldn’t stutter?...

So what’s the difference between you being alone and being in front of people? Clearly that must mean there’s nothing PHYSICALLY wrong with you if you can read fine alone, right? Just a mental hesitat...

I have a lot of experience with this. I took thiamine and magnesium for about 3 years. I’m now completely off it. In my experience, it seemed to help after the first few days. After a while (a few w...

I can relate a lot. I have so much thoughts and ideas I could contribute with, even some good questions - I always tell myself I'll speak the next day, but that never comes. It's a tough battle, that'...

Growing up to a father that would point to my speech every time I was fluent and say I wasn't a stutterer but it was just my overthinking that made it worse ranks up there. He was well-intentioned, b...

Is the why-thought about why you stutter important? (in your experience with your stammering)

Is the why-thought about why you stutter important? (in your experience with your stammering) **Is the why-thought about why you stutter relevant? (choose one or more options)** 1. No, because the wh...

I recorded myself speaking more slowly and I sound more clear, and my stutters were a lot less "annoying"

I recorded myself speaking more slowly and I sound more clear, and my stutters were a lot less "annoying" But is the audio playback an accurate reflection of what I actually sound like in real life? ...

Not sure about its neurogenic or psychogenic(some experienced person in this field can tell us). If somehow we can able to remove those thoughts then likely we stutter less on those words. For that ...

If I'm meeting a teacher/professor for the first time, I find it helpful to self-disclose and be upfront but nonchalant. Something along the lines of, "Hey, I stutter, so it takes a little longer for ...