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commentr/StutterNov 1, 2021
4 points

You try to hard when you’re around an audience. You have no tension when alone. This is the hard part to master and once you let go of caring if you stutter or not is when the tension will go away...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Overthinking & MonitoringAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterNov 1, 2021
23 points

What I have found this really comes down to is understanding the difference between being alone vs with people. And the main difference is the external judgements. Think about it, how are you when...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Overthinking & MonitoringAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterNov 1, 2021
3 points

Many people who don't know me well will tell me that I have a "weird way of wording things". I use a very similar strategy, and often have to reshape my sentences midway through them to work around my...

Anticipation & Avoidance
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & Monitoring
postr/StutterOct 31, 2021
22 points

Speech block is ruining my social life. Help needed

Speech block is ruining my social life. Help needed Hi everyone, throughout my life I have sporadically been dealing with speech blocks and they have been debilitating to the extent that I’m blocking ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSpeech & Stuttering
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringBlocks & Stoppages
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2021
4 points

I'd say my stutter is moderate, I've learned how to control (better word than hiding) it thought my life experiences. I always say what i want to say, i just make an effort to calm down and pronounce ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringAcceptance & Pride
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2021
11 points

Cognitive therapies are best choices for your sitations and yeah, you realized it not beneficial to try to control your nerves and that was great. To make story short, stutter is induced from brain d...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityCoping & Advocacy
Overthinking & MonitoringNeurological & BrainMindset shift
postr/StutterOct 30, 2021
13 points

How to control my brain?

How to control my brain? I noticed when i talk with myself i didn't stutter that much but when I talk with others i stutter a lot. I know its all about in the brain, if you able to control your nerves...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringStress & Fight/Flight+1 more
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2021
1 points

Try not to dwell at all on your stutter. Focus on the message, what you want to say, the answers to questions, etc, don't even give the stutter a second thought. I know it's easier said than done bu...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityCoping & Advocacy
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringStress & Fight/Flight+2 more
commentr/StutterOct 28, 2021
10 points

So you have to speak in front of your class & teachers. You have a presentation, right? Trust me, my stutter was almost gone when I gave presentation in front of my 50-60 classmates & 2 teac...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityCoping & Advocacy
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringPreparation & Rehearsal+3 more
commentr/StutterOct 28, 2021
2 points

The mindset to not dwell on the stutter and give much of a damn helped a lot, to really really not dwell on it at all, before, after, during, all of it! But it didn't help me realize how to fully con...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & AdvocacyIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringMindset shift+1 more
postr/StutterOct 28, 2021
23 points

Random Thoughts about Stuttering

Random Thoughts about Stuttering I am 24m stuttering since childhood and i have always dealt with it and will continue to deal but in the last 2 3 past years have been really difficult and eye opening...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Hiding & ConcealmentOverthinking & MonitoringStress & Fight/Flight+3 more
commentr/StutterOct 27, 2021
1 points

I'll try stimulating my hearing area with the electrodes fixed on the scalp but my hearing is not bad at all, at least proven by every school medical. I think every stutter is handicapped in differen...

Causes & VariabilityAnticipation & Avoidance
Neurological & BrainOverthinking & Monitoring
commentr/StutterOct 27, 2021
3 points

Yeah ecopipam is interesting. It’s related to anti-psychotics in the way it works. On the tdcs, I think what you would want to look into is affecting the broca’s area of the brain. This is responsibl...

Anticipation & Avoidance
Overthinking & Monitoring
commentr/StutterOct 27, 2021
3 points

I came up DBS and TDCS stuffs cuz I discovered the positive effects from them on stutter in a report about Ecopipam's effects on migitating stutter, and the last paragraph stated that after taking me...

Community & SupportAnticipation & Avoidance
Research & ResourcesOverthinking & Monitoring
commentr/StutterOct 26, 2021
3 points

My geography teacher asked me about this, I said I still wanted to be included, but not the "creeping death" of neatly going around class. I asked him to just randomly assign me a paragraph. Bless hi...

Anticipation & Avoidance
Anticipating StutteringOverthinking & Monitoring
commentr/StutterOct 26, 2021
3 points

Feel that, sucks when you're trying to focus on the conversation but also doing everything in your power to avoid blocks at the same time. Really isn't worth it sometimes....

Anticipation & Avoidance
Hiding & ConcealmentOverthinking & Monitoring
commentr/StutterOct 25, 2021
4 points

when i was younger i got a sales job which came with talking all day. I feel that if you talk a lot all day you learn what sounds cause you to stutter. when i say certain words i can tell right away i...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilitySpeech & Stuttering
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringSeverity & Fluctuation+1 more
commentr/StutterOct 24, 2021
3 points

I don't know 😁, for me best time to talk is summer time, talking like a pro, winter is like 80% good, springtime is worst talking about 30%(stuttering almost allways, but is strange thing, I was list...

Causes & VariabilityAnticipation & Avoidance
Cycles & RandomnessOverthinking & Monitoring
commentr/StutterOct 24, 2021
4 points

Interesting. I've found that I am stuttering less since I started some kind of a dopamine detox. Words that I have some difficult are easier to say now, even under stressful situations....

Anticipation & AvoidanceMeds & Substances
Overthinking & MonitoringHelpful Med Outcomes
commentr/StutterOct 23, 2021
4 points

Your sub-conscious is not letting you be relaxed in those situations. It has learnt over many-many years of avoidance behavior that the situation is not 'safe'. The reason it is so difficult to overco...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceTherapy & Professional
Overthinking & MonitoringHelplessness & AgencySeeking Therapy