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You can absolutely work on reducing your stuttering, using fluency techniques if you need to, or masking it if you can. The problem is that stuttering is a neurological disorder—so you'll never be com...

ts anxiety is frying me bro. My stutter got severe because of the anxiety. You are not alone in this....

Interviews can be hell for us stutterers. Personally, I take Propanolol and Baclofen 90 minutes beforehand. It really takes away the adrenaline and relaxes me a lot more. I’m also on anti anxiety m...

21M Stammering + severe anxiety + depression destroyed my confidence after joining college .Need real advice

21M Stammering + severe anxiety + depression destroyed my confidence after joining college .Need real advice I am a 21-year-old CS student. Till class 12th I had only had very mild stuttering (once in...

Yep, that’s a benzodiazepine which acts on GABA A in the brain, similar to alcohol and Valium…. Essentially any GABAergic medication helps with our fluency because it down modulates dopamine levels, w...

Alcohol gives “most of us” temporary fluency because it raises GABA at the GABA A receptors in the brain, which essentially acts like a brake on dopamine hyperactivity for stutterers. This modulating ...

All of these medications are anti-anxiety/depressant medications, which work on different neurotransmitters in the brain and also modulate dopamine too, to some extent. By reducing anticipatory anxie...

I smoke a lot of weed, but I always see it as managing my anxiety rather than managing my stutter. When my mind and body are feeling good, I'm more fluent. If not, I'm not. I try not to look further i...

Anxiety, stress, fatigue, etc., exacerbate it for sure, but there's something much deeper (and likely personalized to a degree) to the dysfluency....

On this Reddit people have reported various levels of success with Abilify, Risperidone, Prozac, Sertraline, Baclofen, Propranolol and other antipsychotic medications used “off label” for their stutte...

Coffee makes mine worse too. I no longer drink it and I’m much more fluent. Caffeine blocks adenosine in the brain, which is what helps your body relax and eventually sleep. If you block it, it makes ...

I find anything that causes a sudden dopamine surge in my brain, makes my stutter worse. Coffee, sugary drinks/foods, smoking and alcohol. However, after a few drinks of alcohol (spirits), GABA take...

Having a stutter is just anxiety & it’s fixable.

Having a stutter is just anxiety & it’s fixable. I have read so many times in this group from so much people that say having a stutter or a block is just emotional or that we’re afraid to talk hence c...

To the OP, yes definitely, your mental health can exacerbate your stuttering. Stutterers already have a dysregulated dopaminergic system in their brain compared to non-stutterers. This can be overacti...

Yep, my anxiety was getting out of control too, so my doctor put me on Fluoxetine (Prozac), and now my anxiety Is significantly reduced. It’s helped a lot with my fluency because I don’t experience ...

A lot of friends of mine don't stuttering a lot but they shared me a tips I can use to not a stutter. The most helpful tip for me is not speed up my speech. I analyzed I am stuttering only when I'm no...

Yes, but everyone has different form of stuttering. Mine is more aggressive in speaking situations. I usually don’t hold back or run away from speaking situation, but sometimes it feels tiring....

Honestly, practice. If you put yourself in enough scary situations where you have to talk, it eventually stops being scary. I've also found that consciously telling your body to relax helps - I tend t...

If fear was the cause, then any anti-anxiety SSRI medication would fix it! Do you agree?

If fear was the cause, then any anti-anxiety SSRI medication would fix it! Do you agree? In reply to the main statement. I believe this assumption is wrong. For example, deeply conditioned unseen/s...

I can always tell. Does anyone here go days or a week with hardly stuttering at all then all of a sudden you just can’t articulate anything? It’s either that for me or if I’m in pain and it’s bad pai...