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Update: I did it. I stuttered through it and was a shaking mess. But I did it. It’s a win in my book...

Frankly, I feel like you. 24M, yesterday I walked home with someone from my class, stuttered the whole way. When we parted ways, I felt terrible and ashamed. It's really hard for a shy guy to have on ...

I feel like confidence plays a role because of my experience (anecdotal I know) I'm a shy guy and I tend to fear people's opinion about me. I don't have social anxiety but I'm definitely in the intro...

My dad had a terrible benzo addiction when I was growing up so I vowed to never take them, but I think they would help me. I have really bad anxiety but yeah side effects are not worth it :/...

Kind of sort of related to “having confidence”, I was talking to a buddy of mine about how I struggled with flirting and putting myself out in The dating game. He basically told me “all you need is co...

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Help. I have a presentation tomorrow and I’m so nervous. Does anyone have any tips?? I practiced with a friend but I know I’m going to get really bad anxiety when I do it in a class full of people a...

Question. Do you think you stutter trying to say “it’s okay” because it happens usually after an anxious and rapid moment, like somebody knocking over your water bottle? Because for me I stutter the m...

I have no therapist or something but I can relate to this. All of the faculty and student in my college department already know that I stutter yet they always push me to take up this certain leadershi...

Yeah. Day 1 of the higher dose. Not much to say I still have a few blocks and everything but I still felt good all day despite a little stress With work stuff, which probably influenced some my stutte...

You're only confident because you "don't care about other people's feedback", you've trained yourself to not give a shit. I don't want to live my life where I'm deluded (no offense) that public opinio...

I think if you’re more confident, you can reduce some anxiety you have which may improve your fluency. Too much anxiety makes you stutter more. For instance, if i have a job interview, I practice soo...

When I am confident I don't care about my stuttering as much which helps me speak better. When my anxiety is really high is when I have a tougher time with speech....

Listen, I could have written this myself just last year, in reference to everything you said about confidence. I promise. I even have gotten into fights in this sub w someone who kept insisting to ...

"be confident" that's like telling someone their dead dog is gonna come back. Confident usually forms through optimism, what the hell is so optimistic about feeling like you're choking every type you ...

Beautifully said, the delusional motherfuckers are always pissing me off with the "just be confident" bullshit. You can't be confident if there is no core reason to be confident...

> Imagine being a soldier going to war This illustrates a problem with the mindset. You're not at war. Most people aren't against you. Honestly, if you look for and accept support, people are gen...

"don't care what others think", not everyone is a fucking monk who's disciplined enough to not care about public opinion. Stuttering is hard enough especially when it's servere but it's even worse whe...

I don’t think this equates to confidence though. When people say “have some confidence” in something you have no control over, that doesn’t make any sense. A saying more akin to something like “be br...

I recently cut back from 400-500mg of caffeine a day to 100mg or less. I also started taking lions mane everyday. Between the two, I’ve noticed a huge improvement in both anxiety and fluency. I don’t ...

Definitely! Everybody has different experiences when it comes to that kind of stuff. The stories you hear about people going crazy and killing themselves is a very very minuscule amount of people in t...