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You can try to distinguish the stutter feeling from the excited/nervous/confused feeling. The advantage is that you can calmly breathe from the belly without associating 'chest breathing' and other fi...
All I did was carefully listen to, AND DO the ideas from the podcast from Tim Mackesey (SLP from Atlanta, Georgia). The short version is to do the opposite of what you do automatically regarding your...
To clarify, his information is outdated and comes from the fact that dysfluency was incorrectly categorized as a speech/language disorder, instead of an anxiety-type thing. If you are over the age o...
I’m exactly like you right now OP, I’m 26 and I noticed my stutter coming back since 2020. I had a stutter when I was a kid but it was not as bad during my middle school or college days until 2020 it ...
The speaker is incorrect. If you can sometimes articulate the sound, it’s NOT an articulation issue. A stutter block is a function of having voluntary fear response (valsalva maneuver) which causes ...
Everything you are describing is a stutter or a secondary behavior. This type of impactful blocking dysfluency is ultimately more of an anxiety disorder - which is why even an SLP doesn’t understand ...
My stutter is affecting my everyday life
My stutter is affecting my everyday life Hello everyone :) I was looking for people to talk about this with, it's been tearing me apart. I've been stuttering ever since I was around 6 years old, i...
Yeah that is super frustrating. Sounds like there could be an anxiety component to it too, now you're older and with more pressures like work, which is quite common and a psychologist could help with ...
I had a slight stutter from about 7-11, it went away and came back when I was 18ish… it just happened randomly and has gotten worse, I’ve tried a few online courses and stuff with basically no success...
Around my colleagues 95% of the time, but when I’m the only one there I can sometimes speak normally, but not usually....
Do you answer the phone around colleagues or by yourself? I've found when answering the phone by myself I'm a lot more confident and animated, but the pressure of others watching/listening to me cause...
Yeah I totally get the extreme pounding heart beats, if I rehearse or not it normally ends up the same embarrassment, I think its worse as well by who's serving you, some people just seem to put y...
I know exactly what you mean, but you have to stop rehearsing before approaching anyone. It is just making your anxiety worse. I used to do that, heck,I was even afraid. My heart used to beat so hard ...
Same here. Can't tell you how many times I've needed to call a bank or credit card company to inquire about something benign like getting a replacement card, and when I'm asked to verify my identity...
Similar experience when i was doing intake for a procedure. Said I blocked/stuttered and it often made it difficult to communicate about certain atypical conditions that increased my anxiety when atte...
I'm afraid it's part of living with a stutter, I find the anxiety way more worse though, just going to the shop knowing I'll have to ask for a specific item is a nightmare, I play it out in my head...
The fear of worrying starts when u are fully legal i mean 18 plus ... The age starts where u get more responsibility and have to communicate interaction with more strangers...at this point u start to ...
Had a medical procedure where I needed to lay almost completely still for 8 hours in hospital “group” recovery room. Nurse forgot to give me call button, and I kept blocking while trying to get her a...
Do you ever have such a terrible interaction with someone it just fucks you up
Do you ever have such a terrible interaction with someone it just fucks you up Whole day is fucked and you just feel like crawling in a hole and disappearing...
Absolutely! Thanks, i want to fly in military for 5 years first and after that to commercial. Military is the one im more nervous about because if you make a mistake it could be your last. But im sure...