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I agree - reflection and self-understanding is essential, and its a practice. I'm just not personally used to it as I have tended to bottle up my issues, and I'm just not used to prodding around insid...

That's a good point, but I think there are things you can do to get it to click sooner. It's never just going to fall into place without facing the problem and analyzing emotions and the like. It prob...

Hi frozen-creek. I fully agree that everyone who has performance anxiety shouldn't wait until they're 60 or whatever to start working on it. But I don't think a logical understanding is sufficient; th...

To go a scientific approach; It's probably just because I'm not stressed and my mind is occupied and therefore I'm not thinking about what I'm saying and not worrying if I'm stuttering....

giving oral presentations is a skill regardless of whether one stutters or not. The best way to learn to manage stuttering while giving oral presentations is to give oral presentations. There is not...

I think this is really great advice. One of the best things to when you're anxious of public speaking is to practice public speaking! ...

Just plow through it head on. I'm exactly where you are. Maybe we're suckers for punishment, but I too have purposely found jobs where communication is important. I used to work as a journalist; imag...

How do you not let the fear of public speaking get to you?

How do you not let the fear of public speaking get to you? Many times before a presentation, classes, work, etc.. the actual fear of public speaking is worse than talking itself. How do you not let th...

Ok this thread seems like a good place to share my thoughts on Xanax and stuttering. I am fairly new to Xanax but not new to stuttering. Brief background on my stuttering: I'm a 30 yr old, male,...

Well of course, theirs two sides to every coin. In the end the only variable you have some control over is you. Two mind sets i've had for interviews. 1. Ok, if I stutter I'm screwed. They will think...

Conquering the beast...

Conquering the beast... And by *beast*, I mean the telephone. I don't necessarily have an incapacitating stutter when talking to a person face-to-face. Yes, I do stutter and block rather frequently, b...

I meant when I'm nervous, my mind races and that just hurts my speech more, you know? Like all the things that come along with being nervous directly affect my speech...

Confidence

Confidence I often see people write that "confidence" is directly relevant to stuttering. Or establishing "confidence" is necessary (and sufficient?) to overcoming stuttering. There was a very inter...

maybe it's even the other way around - like, you got confident _becase_ you got better at handling your speech... not that we need to establish causal orders to discuss these concepts, of course. may...

right, so, there's a couple of things we need to take a look at here. first of all, i'd like you to reflect on what exactly goes on "in your head" when you're speaking, or trying to speak, as it were...

Stuttering and Conversation

Stuttering and Conversation I'm tired of this. If you knew me, you might say my stuttering isn't that bad. "I barely hear you stutter". Alright then, I guess I'm a covert stutterer. Life is great rig...

Don't hold yourself back

Don't hold yourself back I recently built up the courage to attend a career fair at my college. I had been debating whether or not I should go for a while. However, I realized that I have to do things...

Wow, thanks for this. Your self-observations were helpful and I can relate to many of them. As I read the point where you say "When...my mind is racing, I get blocks and stutter", I thought to myself,...

Thanks for your ideas. That very well might be what he(?) was referring to. Kind of like big picture v. small picture. I was wondering if he was referring to the linguistic (word meaning) v. the mot...

"I'm not sure what you mean by you "treated words as objects." Can you elaborate?" What I got from what he was saying is that changing his mindset -seeing words as simply the product of his mouth, li...