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Got stopped by police, they asked me some questions, i stuttered on every word.

Got stopped by police, they asked me some questions, i stuttered on every word. Note: i'm writing this an hour after it happened. So every night my mom finishes her work late at night and it's dangero...

i find that caffeine and vitamin b1 reduce my word blocks considerably..gaba agonist like phenibut actually made my speech worse.. like many studies prove..it relaxes you but it made your speech worse...

i take it with caffeine and it's a nice boost, non-habit forming. and yes, like most of us here, stuttering has been a lifelong struggle, and the real trauma came from the nastiness of fellow classma...

When do you stutter less and more?

When do you stutter less and more? For me I stutter the most when I'm stressed, introducing myself to new people and when I feel insecure/uncomfortable. Less is when I talk to someone I trust and kn...

What makes us stutter?

What makes us stutter? Seriously, you ever think about it? Our brains are just wired so that something sets off this reaction where we just can't get the word out. But what's that thing? What causes t...

Hi, I'm in my thirties and I've been wrestling with my stammer for as long as I can remember. Today, it's gotten a lot better but it still surfaces from time to time. It's directly correlated with how...

Hi. MDMA is being studied right now as a treatment for severe anxiety disorders. Before ecstasy (MDMA) was made illegal in 1985, it was used by some therapists to treat all kinds of anxiety disorders...

STUTTER HELP

STUTTER HELP I go through most of everyday life absolutely fine. Day to day there is little evidence of a stutter when I talk. There are however two main times when it rears its ugly stuttering head: ...

Hi guys, I have a few questions regarding stuttering, some of them asked a lot here probably. I would to hear your thoughts!

Hi guys, I have a few questions regarding stuttering, some of them asked a lot here probably. I would to hear your thoughts! Hello fellow stutterers! I have a couple of questions to ask and some thou...

I used to be very afraid of phone calls when I was a kid and it caused a lot of anxiety. Now that I'm an adult, I recognize the irrationality of it and accept them as a part of daily life. However, I ...

This is you essentially performing a valsalva maneuver. Your larynx closes (trying to say a vowel) and your stomach tightens. This compresses your air and creates that tension. I don't think the larn...

I really suggest reading around on this sub, because you'll find many people discuss the tolls it takes in their daily lives. Those of us that struggle with mental health issues find that that it may ...

how do you guys deal with stomach pain/tension?

how do you guys deal with stomach pain/tension? Hey guys, The difference between when I talk fluent and stutter is that when I stutter my abdominal muscles become really tense and contract at the EXA...

Exactly. Any stress will make it worse. And TMI, but I bet if you asked enough women stutterers, you'd find that fluency greatly decreases depending on the time of the month....

It did, absolutely. I would build up such ridiculous amounts of anxiety in anticipation of having to speak that any hope of being fluent was gone. After pushing myself farther & farther outside ...

I think for stutterers like us, speech pathology isn't really the answer. I'd always speak fluently in therapy because I was very relaxed and didn't care what the teacher thought of me. I think some f...

The only medication that's ever worked for me isn't listed as a medication used for anxiety. The medication was called adderall. It's for ADHD and my doctor's refuses to give it to me but it cures me ...

Yeah anxiety is the real enemy. I'm 33 and just now realizing how much anxiety controls my day to day life. ...

That's called anxiety. You can try to train yourself to not think about it, but anxiety makes that extremely difficult. ...

Hi. The trouble with benzodiazepines (Xanax, etc.) is that if they help, they work poorly if used regularly long term. That is because they are habit-forming and you need more and more over time to g...