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Stress and lack of sleep make me stutter more than feeling happy or sad. At times I've been depressed and could hardly string a sentence together, and other times I've felt so good I've been fluent fo...

Stuttering's link to being a hypersensitive person - are you a hypersensitive person?

Stuttering's link to being a hypersensitive person - are you a hypersensitive person? From this article "**Stuttering and the highly sensitive child (HSC)**" *Is hypersensitivity a factor in the onse...

It is interesting, when i speak faster many times I do reduce my stutter, I believe it might have to do with processing my thoughts faster into words and delivering with out the fear of stuttering. A...

In my last year of nursing school. Honestly thought I would be more fluid at this point but it’s still going relatively well! My advice would be to just keep pushing and practicing, have a short memor...

Talk with strangers everyday. Flood yourself with experience. Eventually even if your actual stuttering doesn’t diminish, you will learn ways to communicate easily despite your blocks....

Government attorney, hit six figures in my thirties. There are few fields in which you’ll hit six figures in your twenties unless you live in a major metro (where six figures won’t get you as far an...

I make \~160k/year as a PhD synthetic chemist for a major pharmaceutical company. I still stutter very noticeably, and I never imagined how much public speaking I would have to do as a scientist. I ga...

Making >500k a year and coming from a blue collar family background. Not in project management but in a front office banking role which also requires a lot of client facing exposure as you grow mor...

Well best of luck there mate, I wanted to point out that I have just graduated from dental school, but the last two years I studied I did get into clinic training, I extracted, did cavity preps, made ...

I have very stressful exams coming up so my stutter has been bad the last two weeks....

Yep. I think of mine as a wave, when it's bad I just try to ride it out as I know it will improve in a few days. Lots of things cause it to get bad like pms, anxiety, job interviews, moon phases well ...

Yeap depending on my sleep/anxiety. I can usually fix it in a few days by focusing on reducing anxiety. Even just taking ten minutes a day to sit somewhere quiet and meditating kinda. I just focus on ...

being tired and stressed out makes it the worst. if i know i have a day where i’m gonna talk a lot the day before i try to get atleast 8 hours. i also take gabapentin 2400 mg a day and it seems to hel...

For me its worst when im sick/tired/stressed. And during the holidays for some reason i stutter up a storm...

This is something I don't understand. All the research I've done says that stuttering has no relationship to nervousness or anxiety, that it is purely neurological. However, I definitely find that I s...

I have 10+ friends, different grps and we see each other if we're not busy. I am never alone unless i chose to. Stuttering wasnt really a big deal they just act like i don't have a speech problem but ...

In my case, my stuttering is almost entirely neurological. Anxiety is a consequence of stuttering, not a cause. At least in my case. If your stutter is a result of anxiety, tackle the anxiety. if your...

I hope this works for you.

I hope this works for you. I never stuttered from birth but emulated an older brother that did and developed one, it got worse as parents were really tough on me, including peers growing up. It wasn't...

For years I worked in a noisy factory, which forced me to speak louder with more force in my voice just to be heard. This did actually help a bit. However, a friend of mine who also stuttered had a n...

Be confident in what you are going to say. I also make it a point to try to exhale hard and breath carefully when I am focusing on speech. In addition to speaking moderately louder than I would want t...