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My experience with antianxiety meds is that they generally do numb me out to an extent and take some of the wildness out of life. Fluvoxamine has worked the best for me and I've taken it for a long ti...

I'd say the diagram is perfectly correct, as the anxieties and lack of confidence give justification for my mind to put up a barrier/be on high alert. ​ Once again, all very accurate ana...

There’s also the idea that impactful stuttering is a neurological condition caused by an inappropriate unconscious valsalva maneuver in response to the *memory* of people laughing at your repetitions....

I have the same problem.. I stutter hardcore and I have those wild tics too 😂 My friends give me hell about it.. They joke and laugh behind my back and in my face. I laugh too because the tics re...

I’m 19 and a sophomore in college and as it is I’m a pretty social guy and I like to tell people I’m close to that I’d probably be the most talkative person alive if I didn’t have a stutter. The last ...

My situation is similar to this. I work as a customer representative (Call center) and some days things are fine and other days I just want to quit and cry myself to sleep. It's so annoying when the s...

I'm the exact same. Rejection terrifies me, not just career-wise, but romantically and when it comes to meeting people in general. I think it's down to my serious abandonment issues stemming from a ba...

I"m just writing a new message bc my first response was full of confusing edits. I have literally done the agreement-fist when reading lots of your comments because I think you get right to the core ...

The NSA don't suggest fluency shaping. And stuttering is not rooted in anxiety. If it were half the population would stutter. Anxiety is created from the fear of stuttering, not the other way around. ...

I have analyzed your stutter problem in this [PDF file](https://drive.google.com/file/d/16-apteCpvOoxnZYSvKJUfExDj7LrBrOm/view?usp=sharing). Did I get it correctly? Assuming we are going from the dia...

I’m also considering left brain/right brain dominance between males and females. Maybe even hormone levels. You mentioned aggressive qualities in males, someone who is aggressive is more likely to fig...

Very very very good speculation, this is something I've been thinking about intently since my stutter has gotten bad. ​ I have a problem with moving my tongue/mouth during a block. As for...

You can try to distinguish the stutter feeling from the excited/nervous/confused feeling. The advantage is that you can calmly breathe from the belly without associating 'chest breathing' and other fi...

All I did was carefully listen to, AND DO the ideas from the podcast from Tim Mackesey (SLP from Atlanta, Georgia). The short version is to do the opposite of what you do automatically regarding your...

IMO, your initial thoughts were right on target! - anticipatory fear causes blocking. Coming up with other names for it and doing complex analysis about what else precedes blocks will just lead to a...

To clarify, his information is outdated and comes from the fact that dysfluency was incorrectly categorized as a speech/language disorder, instead of an anxiety-type thing. If you are over the age o...

The speaker is incorrect. If you can sometimes articulate the sound, it’s NOT an articulation issue. A stutter block is a function of having voluntary fear response (valsalva maneuver) which causes ...

You got fluent when yelling/swearing/angry bc it used enough force to override something called valsalva maneuver which is automatic reaction to fear that clamps shut vocal chords. Please do not use...

So, valsalva done intentionally for a moment can convert back to a normal heart rhythm. (One side effect is it STOPS vocal chords from producing sound) valsalva done involuntarily is a fear respons...

Everything you are describing is a stutter or a secondary behavior. This type of impactful blocking dysfluency is ultimately more of an anxiety disorder - which is why even an SLP doesn’t understand ...