Search

My belief is that the increase in fear strengthens the negative feedback loop and then the stuttering increases...

U have anxiety because you stutter, but the anxiety makes your stutter worse....

They go hand in hand. Most likely though, the stutter gave you anxiety. I’ve had one since I remember and as a kid, I never cared about it. As I got older, it got worse due to the anxiety that came wi...

omg i was thinking ab this too recently !!!! i’ve had phases of stuttering when i was a child but since high school, it’s stuck now and i think bc i would get so anxious ab stuttering , that it was al...

I understand because same. I think and try to talk fast as well. I kind of also have a fascination with talking fast which kinda slows me down when I stutter :'3 I'm sure you'll work through this and ...

Thank you very much for the advice. I agree that my wife's feelings are completely valid. That's why I want to find a way forward because it's not fair on her. I am also neurodivergent and have ADHD...

Ours is a different reality. We have good days and bad days. The bad days make your perspectives collapse into a despair. We’ve all been there. These moments pass. Take a break. Examine your anxieti...

When stuttering becomes so stressful, I start getting headaches. Sometimes, I think I'll get a stroke, how tensed my face and head get overall. It makes me so angry that people still believe that spee...

motivation for people who stutter

motivation for people who stutter Hey guys, just wanted to drop some motivation for anyone who may be depressed due to their speech impairment. Regardless of how you may perceive yourself due to your ...

Mine is definitely anxiety induced. It can be every sentence for months and then go away for a year. So my goal is to work on the anxiety more. And to work on getting less frustrated when it does happ...

I don't know what people think about this, but let me tell you something. You are neither right nor wrong about it, you are wrong because "your fellow stutterers" don't think the same as you do, they ...

Tips to improve stuttering according to a PhD researcher (Variable Release Threshold hypothesis)

Tips to improve stuttering according to a PhD researcher (Variable Release Threshold hypothesis) This is my attempt to summarize this [research](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul-Brocklehurst)...

Speech therapy update

Speech therapy update 21M here. I am posting this just to update you all about my first speech therapy session. I have been having speech blocks since I was a teenager. It used to be an on-off thi...

Personally for me no. I can't speak for others. I did it as a kid and the focused on pronunciation. That was not and still is not my issue. I have anxiety and that makes my stutter much worse. They fo...

No, I don't really have any anxiety. Sometimes I feel nervous and anxious, which definitely makes my stutter worse, but I stutter talking to myself in my own house - and I'm definitely not anxious in ...

Does your stuttering cause anxiety or nervousness? When I take anti anxiety meds it sometimes helps but it has side effects...

You can, as you already said, try antipsychotics, so dopamine-antagonists like Risperidone or Olanzapine, Aripiprazole as they seem to be the most effective according to research. I tried a similar dr...

Gotcha, yeah I work from home so no drug tests. I wish anxiety had more of a role in my stutter. There seem to be a lot of anti-anxiety meds out there that help. Unfortunately, I can stutter severely...

I would try it but my job has annual drug testing. Yes alcohol helps me a lot, my stutter is heightened by anxiety when i drink that part of my brain just slows down a bit...

There are various programs out there that do help people in various ways with various approaches that work for people. I know in Australia there are 2 main ones. Just need to research to find them. I'...