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It really makes me hate myself, I had to ask a friend of mine to give me a drive to school because it was raining and I couldn’t bike, and at the end I just went “T-t-t-t thank you” and I felt like sh...

Good luck on becoming an E5! That's the rank transition I loved seeing my Soldiers make most. It's a huge step. Continue to take as many leadership roles as you can. Hard work, being a good person, tr...

I'm in the Army. At a time it was rough, but it was mainly myself that was "making it rough". When I quit giving a shit about about and developed a " yeah, I stutter... so what?" attitude, my fluency ...

I definitely think my sleep apnea (and me not using my CPAP) cause the tiredness and increase my anxiety which leads to spurts of stuttering. Thanks for the comment!...

Military and stuttering

Military and stuttering Hello everyone, just wondering if anyone joined the military with a stutter? My stutter isn’t terrible and for the most part I can get my sentences out (social pressure sometim...

Making big choices because your depressed. Is like buying a car when your drunk. It’s not worth the stress to think about. And your definitely not going to be fully mentally capable. Just stick it out...

The worst thing you can do is avoid it. In the general case is. Stuttering causes, anxiety and fear of speaking *first*. Not the other way around. And if you have people that you trust. None of them w...

I think generally there’d be an increase due to uncontrollable stutters having a negative impact on ones confidence and mental health...

To be clear, which isn’t true. Anxiety/ lack of self confidence doesn’t cause the stutters is almost always the other way around....

People are very capable of being charismatic and confident with some egregious stutters. I think the reason those both don’t happen more often is because a stutter can often have a negative impact on ...

How much chances for self-confidence boosting in my early teenage years I’ve missed out on. Which includes development altogether as making friends, and feeling excluded and general increase to anxiet...

That is the first thing that comes to mind if you're reading a story like this, but if that's happening to you, in the heat of the moment you feel too devastated and just want to get as far away as po...

Exactly! I feel like alot of stuttering gets worse because of panicking....

happens to the best of us man i know the feeling. you should not think about it too much that u may stutter before u talk i find myself stuttering when i think about what i say. You said at the end it...

This is great, I like this story. I started a speech program 6 months ago and started to read aloud. Anyways, I won't get into the methods but one is to insert pauses. Now when you start to insert pau...

Depends on the medication. I don't medications treating generalized anxiety work for stuttering that well, but the ones used for specific instances have anecdotal evidence. I would just discuss with ...

My instinctual reaction is exactly the same, but while I do imagine that for most people public speaking is a lot easier, there are lots of other things that cause anxiety about public speaking beside...

I sympathize with this post, usually when I have blockages my head starts to ache, arguing and talking is literally impossible for me, I just shut up....

How stressful/tiring EVERY social interaction is for us people who stutter...

Vent away. Keep in mind, public speaking is one of the biggest fears. Most people are insecure about themselves, including the sound of their voice....