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commentr/StutterSep 8, 2025
1 points

Yes, usually my stuttering is worse during the first days. If I am stressed, scared, or anxious, there is a 90 percent chance that I will stutter. Thank you for your comment. I will take your suggesti...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Stress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterSep 7, 2025
2 points

This is a very common experience and you are lucky to be able to acknowledge that panic and fear are involved, as knowing is the first step in making changes. Here’s more info...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Stress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social Judgment
postr/StutterSep 7, 2025
8 points

How I'm finally managing to control my terrible stuttering !

How I'm finally managing to control my terrible stuttering ! Guys I'm also suffering with developmental stuttering very severe from small.My names Kyle Cameron, I'm an Indian male from South Africa KZ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityCoping & Advocacy
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentStress & Fight/Flight+3 more
postr/StutterSep 7, 2025
2 points

What is your advice? You can write me privately. If you have any information, please help.

What is your advice? You can write me privately. If you have any information, please help. Hello everyone, my stuttering is a block. I generally have difficulty pronouncing the first syllable of a wor...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Feared Words & NamesStress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social Judgment+1 more
commentr/StutterSep 7, 2025
1 points

The connection with anxiety is confirmed by top researchers and the DSM. Often tho, the anxiety is rooted in memories from years ago. Also, knowing you are likely to struggle to speak causes anxiety...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceAnticipation & Avoidance
Stress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social JudgmentExperiential Association
commentr/StutterSep 6, 2025
0 points

The key to fluency is relaxing. If we are stressed we stutter more, so going somewhere you are stressed out isn’t going to help much. Your mom cares, you are very lucky, she’s doing what she feels l...

Causes & VariabilityCoping & Advocacy
Stress & Fight/FlightMindfulness & Breathing
commentr/StutterSep 6, 2025
1 points

“We learned to be frustrated because everyone acts frustrated at us because of it” << 100% this. Though I’ll admit, my entire life, I’ve never had an adult act frustrated at me over it after I became ...

Causes & VariabilityCommunity & SupportIdentity & Disability
Stress & Fight/FlightValidation & EmpathyStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterSep 5, 2025
3 points

Also, you need to understand that different parts of the brain are activated when actually speaking to an observer, person, or if you are involved in a social situation. Take therapy for example, di...

Causes & VariabilitySpeech & Stuttering
Neurological & BrainStress & Fight/FlightPropositionality & Weight+1 more
commentr/StutterSep 5, 2025
3 points

It has to be the tension and anxiety over possibly stuttering that’s doing this ...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Stress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social Judgment
postr/StutterSep 5, 2025
3 points

If I don’t stutter as often when I talk out loud by myself, is my biggest problem tension/anxiety?

If I don’t stutter as often when I talk out loud by myself, is my biggest problem tension/anxiety? Pretty straightforward question. I can speak without stammering often if I talk to myself out loud. B...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Overthinking & MonitoringStress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social Judgment
postr/Stutter_remissionSep 4, 2025
1 points

My image attempts to show that many people who stutter (and even many clinicians/researchers) underappreciate the scale of suppressed conditioned responses: a learned tendency for the nervous system to suppress or “hold back” speech

My image attempts to show that many people who stutter (and even many clinicians/researchers) underappreciate the scale of suppressed conditioned responses: a learned tendency for the nervous system t...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityCoping & Advocacy
Overthinking & MonitoringStress & Fight/FlightSituational Variability+2 more
commentr/StutterSep 4, 2025
2 points

Well with stutter is mainly blocks and tension. The more anxious I am …the more I block and hesitate to get my words out Im starting work this weekend as a Teacher Assistant and I’m honestly scared ...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceSchool & Work
Stress & Fight/FlightShame & EmbarrassmentEmployment & Career
commentr/StutterSep 4, 2025
3 points

Despite having a stutter (a speech block to be specific) ever since i can remember, i never got bullied or mocked in school. I cant recall one time when someone made me feel bad because of my block. ...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Stress & Fight/FlightPropositionality & WeightAnxiety & Social Judgment+3 more
postr/StutterSep 4, 2025
11 points

My stuttering experience with Drugs

My stuttering experience with Drugs Hey everyone, my stuttering has reached a new low. I can’t even start a sentence without a 15-second blockade, and in half of my conversations, it takes a minute pe...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityMeds & Substances
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentStrategic Swearing/Cursing+3 more
commentr/StutterSep 3, 2025
1 points

My heart breaks for you. You do not have to choose. I’m not a Dr. I’m not selling anything. I’m speaking from my own lived experience and with many scars. It’s psychological. Get on anti anxiety meds ...

Causes & VariabilityTherapy & Professional
Stress & Fight/FlightTrauma & PsychologicalSeeking Therapy
postr/Stutter_remissionSep 2, 2025
1 points

How does our APPROACH-AVOIDANCE conflict work? (that result in stuttering)

How does our APPROACH-AVOIDANCE conflict work? (that result in stuttering) In my opinion: I'd like to propose an example.. this is simply one possibility: Fear of being judgemental (the stimulus), a...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Stress & Fight/FlightPropositionality & WeightAnxiety & Social Judgment
postr/Stutter_remissionSep 2, 2025
1 points

Anxiety stimulus + anxiety response: So how does it work exactly? I mean, how does our subconscious brain link anxiety stimuli to speech execution? How does our subconscious mind, thru repeated reinforcement, condition the anxiety stimulus with an anxiety response and its manifestations

Anxiety stimulus + anxiety response: So how does it work exactly? I mean, how does our subconscious brain link anxiety stimuli to speech execution? How does our subconscious mind, thru repeated reinfo...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Anticipating StutteringOverthinking & MonitoringStress & Fight/Flight+1 more
postr/Stutter_remissionSep 2, 2025
1 points

What is your viewpoint on the idea that stuttering is mostly preceded by sensitization—that is, that stuttering manifestations are mostly sensitized reactions to the particular stimuli or needs they have become sensitized to (resulting in excessive regulation of speech execution i.e., a breakdown)

What is your viewpoint on the idea that stuttering is mostly preceded by sensitization—that is, that stuttering manifestations are mostly sensitized reactions to the particular stimuli or needs they h...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & Variability
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringStress & Fight/Flight+1 more
postr/StutterSep 2, 2025
6 points

Any advice for my severe stutter?

Any advice for my severe stutter? I usually do stutter (been stuttering since I was a kid) but I’m stuttering more than usual … I think it’s from life stressors, social anxiety, or just general anxie...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Anticipating StutteringAvoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & Monitoring+2 more
commentr/StutterSep 2, 2025
1 points

money pls, if i'm rich idgaf if i can't speak, i can employ someone to speak for me if i want, or i can just afford speech therapy lol also being rich will 100% lower my stress level which in turn at...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionStress & Fight/FlightHelplessness & Agency