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Thank you for your comment. That is so interesting and helpful. You are so right about stuttering being the one thing that wires your brain to be hypervigilant! I am almost 22. Trying to figure out ...

I’m in my early 40s and was diagnosed with AvPD a couple years ago. The description definitely resonates with me. Most people say a personality disorder has to be pervasive throughout life, so adult o...

True, I perfectly agree. But when one is simply not in a position to go to a professional and is troubled and mystified by one's difficulties, it's only natural to try and find an explanation. I would...

Ohh... I actually asked this question because I've been trying to understand my own problems & pathology too. But pls keep in mind that Social Anxiety Disorder also has a strong correlation with Stut...

Stuttering & Avoidant Personality Disorder

Stuttering & Avoidant Personality Disorder Is there a proven connection between Stuttering and Avoidant Personality Disorder? That is, is it possible that the social difficulties and childhood trauma ...

There could be a possibility that it’s more of a physical limitation for you, I actually had trouble pronouncing a lot of c, p, I words, there were a few more, but a speech therapist said it might be ...

I just googled toungue tie and i am not sure. I have lip tie on both upper and lower lip. And i might have a tongue tie...

I still don't know how to fix my stuttering, but I don't surrender. Now I'm trying herbal medicine. I would like to try PTSD treatments too (since I think trauma is involved). I try to push myself out...

Same. Im starting to feel like my brain is taking damage from stuttering. I feel retarded, sometimes when I speak, my brain shuts down and I use wrong words. I block so hard so I cant breath. My fear ...

Who's the right people get help from?..I've been to countless speech therapists & it never helped me because my stutter is neurological or maybe trauma based and it has created a seemingly unbreakable...

Same here! I can’t think clearly when i am in a middle of a block, in my case it’s a response to repeated trauma, i am a severe stuterer and i have painful experiences on a daily basis. I know it soun...

Is stuttering mainly a disorder of miscalculating "action values"? (based on past experiences) Does our subconscious calculate the moment to moment based on environmental/psychological changes we perceive as a threat? Research: "Stuttering is primarily a reward-punishment mechanism"

Is stuttering mainly a disorder of miscalculating "action values"? (based on past experiences) Does our subconscious calculate the moment to moment based on environmental/psychological changes we perc...

How?? Just because he doesn’t have a girlfriend? Stuttering can cause extreme depression and in some circumstances it can be an INCREDIBLY debilitating disability. It’s natural to feel like it stole e...

What causes the increase of our defensive mechanism (that prevents thoughts from saying out loud) resulting in stuttering ? Everyone, join the intruiging discussion!

What causes the increase of our defensive mechanism (that prevents thoughts from saying out loud) resulting in stuttering ? Everyone, join the intruiging discussion! ...

Let's all work together! Maybe there is a physiological enigma still entangled in psychoanalytical mumbo jumbo prying to reveal itself ! We need some direction of Hope. The problem isn’t so much a lack of information on stuttering, rather a lack of competent synthesis of all the information we have

Let's all work together! Maybe there is a physiological enigma still entangled in psychoanalytical mumbo jumbo prying to reveal itself ! We need some direction of Hope. The problem isn’t so much a lac...

Probably not. I am learning Korean and Japanese and I don't stutter in those because I don't have the trauma. But if someone's stutter is neurological then would stutter in any language....

As always, you bring up excellent questions!!! >*"If that's the case how can I prevent my defensive mechanism from acting?"* **In my humble opinion:** **Ideas for addressing the high defensive mech...

My parents (specifically my dad) used to also hit me a lot when I didn’t do things correctly and I feel that contributed to my stutter. In a nutshell, I don’t think you necessarily caused your stutter...

Additionally, speech therapists, mindfulness specialists, NLP-, CBT-, ACT- and other modalities - they all have their own set of clinical interventions to address "forgetting stuttering". Such as, ad...

Is it possible that I gave myself a stutter when I was a kid? (TW, abuse)

Is it possible that I gave myself a stutter when I was a kid? (TW, abuse) My stutter began when I was 8 years old. No issues before this. I also grew up in an abusive home where my parents would hit m...