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Unfortunately the same, that's the thing I'm scared of the most. I started asking the teachers to let me skip it, trying everything I can so I don't have to participate. I participated in a research ...

Same thing happened during my interview in August. Fear sunk in but also made me go back to speech therapy to work on it more and keep trying. Schools claim to review holistically hopefully that’s tru...

Yeah that is what I was thinking too. When I think it is too important, it always mess me up....

Did mock with my parents, been preparing 2 for weeks. I couldn’t even say my name properly. I usually have milder stutter but this one was so severe...

I have a mind game I sometimes use. Just decide it doesn’t matter whether you get into med school or not as that will take the pressure off. I’ve done that sort of thing and it results in a good inter...

I can feel you! My end sem dissertation was like this. Worked whole semester and rehearsed 1 day before presentation but during presentation it was just me and my slide. I stammerered so hard that ext...

These SSRI medications take weeks to work on your brain neurotransmitter chemistry. It does NOT WORK after only one week. Prozac/Fluoxetine takes 6-8 weeks to stabilise serotonin and dopamine levels...

I think that you should try giving mock interviews with someone and go through all the potential questions that they ask usually ask in interviews . Atleast prepare 2 different answers to a single que...

Botched med school interview today

Botched med school interview today I Couldn’t say one word without a block. Worst performance of my life. All that interview preparation all for nothing. Studied and worked years for this day. I have ...

I’ve made it through presentations decent enough before when I get in the right mind and focus, but I ran into a hard t early on which is the pronunciation that usually kills me and just knew it wasn’...

Anyone else get that feeling of dread...

Anyone else get that feeling of dread... ...when on the first day of school you're going through your class syllabus and see "Presentations" in it. Heart immediately starts beating fast and almost can...

I feel this way too sometimes... I mean I have a phone call I need to make.. I'm here thinking about the best words I can use so I don't block for too long. Just placing a freaking phone call has bec...

When I was 10, with severe stutter, every second word, my teacher made us all reply to roll call by saying "good morning Mr blue.." He would say "good morning purple", and purple would reply "good mor...

This was me! I dreaded presentations even days before it but for some reason I would always ask the teacher for me to go first! I hate the panic attacks/anxiety so I needed to relieve myself by just g...

I do that too. Someone introduces themself now and 30secs later I can't call their name cause I never listened. My attention was on my breathing, getting ready to say my name....

I speak English as my first language, and also speak Bengali and Arabic. I stutter more in my latter to languages which I think is because my brain isn’t as comfortable with them...

Trying to “cure” a stutter by a deadline sounds like the absolute worst way to go about it. You’ve thoroughly set yourself up for failure with this one. Good luck though...

I was so nervous, i barely prepared, we did a mock presentation as a group twice before the real one and i stuttered like crazy for the mock presentation. On the real one i tried my best but i still c...

Wait til you get into your career and you gotta introduce yourself every other week at some meeting lol it never goes away 🤣🫠🥹🥲...

The individual has a big impact here. I went to therapy for several years in my teens. I saw minimal improvement. I went back to the same therapist in my 20s. Over the course of more than six month...