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stuttering and relationship problems

stuttering and relationship problems I’ve recently gone from a long period (almost a year) of very mild stuttering, to a period of severe stuttering. It seems to be on and off, but that year of what f...

When i am very emotional, crying, empathizing heavily with someone, or panicked i usually have totally clear speech. It’s perplexing. My best guess is that the amygdala part of your brain is engaged (...

I feel this. Just to be solutions focused… do you think benzodiazepines would help in the short term for situations where you need to socialize or talk a lot? Maybe this could be effective? Maybe taki...

This is sooo true man,at times we say the words we know we won't stutter on...

The sympathetic nervous system is activated. As our blood pressure rises, the secretion of adrenaline and dopamine increases. You may have experienced fluency for a short time....

Can someone explain/help me understand this experience?

Can someone explain/help me understand this experience? Hi everyone A while back, I had a strange experience. I am still trying to understand it. I had a panic attack for the first time (I believe t...

If you have blocks, your own body doesn’t allow you to say the words you want to say, how and when. It’s like if the following happened on your drive to work, everyday. You encountered dozens of det...

Words trapped, like prisoners in the mind, a stuttering tongue the chains that bind. A voice silenced, trapped in a cage, a struggle to speak, a life-long rage....

For me personally: What makes it worse: talking to family (don’t know why), talking to crowds ex. class presentation (nervous/anxious etc, heart rate def increases), calling on the phone (nervous mayb...

As others have said, a silent block is one of the three types of primary stuttering behaviors. The other two are repetitions and prolongations. But however you want to describe it or talk about it, i...

I'm the same. It's triggered by anxiety and other than that I know how to talk. I was taking speech therapy but my SLP advised that I know how to speak and the issues aren't that and decided to halt a...

>Blocking is actually a more “severe” form of stuttering. It happens bc you are so fearful of ppl hearing your repetitions, you try very hard (too hard!) to hide them. That causes the block. I'm o...

All the NY chapters are active and meet regularly. I recommend you email, text, or call the contact information provided. https://westutter.org/find-nsa-meeting-near/new-york/...

Kept my promise and I really hope people here find it useful - Stuttering Veteran

Kept my promise and I really hope people here find it useful - Stuttering Veteran First, I would like to apologise for the delay in writing this post, I had my exams last week and just couldn't find t...

Exactly. I always feel there is something to do with breathing but can't point my finger on it. Yeah actually I even higher heartbeat than average. Ok I will go through past comments, but if you do...

That's one thing I noticed. We chat a lot about it on the discord. How powerful distractions can be basically. Like someone interrupting mid stutter might be all it takes and then you feel entirely...

Amazing video! Tips to improve stuttering: * outgrowing stuttering is extremely hard \[finger trap mechanism\], because we want to do what our instinct doesn't want \[protection mechanism\] \[counter...

Hope

Hope Sometimes i think that it is the worst thing that can happen to anyone and i dont want to play as a victim here. Tbh i didnt even care that i stutter i always say the things which i want to say b...

I have heard that T makes it worse. It’s also mainly men stuttering compared to woman, and we obviously have higher T levels naturally....

Yeah man, not gonna lie i dont feel that much of an effect from choline(Alpha-GPC). However, ive recently started using Ashwagandha and it has helped my stress related to my stutter a great deal....