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commentr/StutterNov 1, 2025
2 points

Yeah that's relatable for me too, the pressure and the guilt, i guess for me it came from the wrong way to deal with the issue when i was young that what was in my head its my fault to stutter which d...

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Hiding & ConcealmentStress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social Judgment+1 more
postr/StutterNov 1, 2025
8 points

Becoming a group leader of semester project

Becoming a group leader of semester project Hello guys, i just started my First semester of university, and i want to become confident and get rid of the Fear of Stuttering and not feel embarrassed ab...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceSchool & Work
Anticipating StutteringAvoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & Monitoring+3 more
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2025
1 points

For me its not just my name. I lock up when words that are difficult(especially vowels) comes up. I recognized the sounds that I struggle. When a word with that sound comes up I know I'm gonna stutter...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Anticipating StutteringFeared Words & NamesAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2025
4 points

Everyone's too busy thinking about themselves.  I don't think anyone can turn that off, its the great irony of being human.  We think everyone thinks about us yet they all think the same.   Give you...

Emotional Experience
Anxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2025
1 points

I know what you mean. I know many people with social anxiety disorders, even worse than mine, and they do not stutter one bit. I’m taking anti-anxiety medication which helps a tonne with my anxiety P...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceMeds & Substances
Avoidance & SubstitutionAnxiety & Social JudgmentHelpful Med Outcomes
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2025
0 points

Like I said, social anxiety plays a vital role in this equation. If I can reduce the physical and mental stress during social interactions and try to emulate my speech pattern when I talk to myself, I...

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Avoidance & SubstitutionStress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2025
4 points

Talking to yourself (or even whispering) results in totally different neurological and physiological responses compared to talking in a social setting. Adrenaline and anxiety surges through the roof ...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Neurological & BrainStress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social Judgment
postr/StutterOct 31, 2025
16 points

I would stutter if I was "allowed".

I would stutter if I was "allowed". Anybody ever feel like if they were to stutter around certain people, they'd just make a big deal out of it? Like i would stutter, but I know some people would jus...

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Anxiety & Social JudgmentStigma & Bullying
postr/StutterOct 31, 2025
4 points

Name issue

Name issue I can’t say my first name, and when I’m asked it feels like my throat closes up and I enter into a frozen state. I can say my last name with no problems. Every doctor I’ve spoken with ins...

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Feared Words & NamesAnxiety & Social JudgmentMedication Inquiries+1 more
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2025
2 points

Yeah I get that, but even just to help with that anxiety will help me to control things a bit better, since that fight or flight response is throwing away all techniques i learn....

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Stress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2025
3 points

Recently it's been my Monday/Wednesday class, the professor doesn't look up while he's taking attendance so I can't just raise my hand. I stuttered one time and ever since then I've had a pit in my st...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Anticipating StutteringAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2025
1 points

for me it depends what mood i am in(am i Anxious or confident) Sometimes i stammer when alone sometimes i dont. And my stammering is completely response to not stammer/anticipation of stammer....

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Anticipating StutteringAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2025
2 points

If a hypnotherapist is claiming to fix stuttering, they're scamming you. Its neurological. You can't hypnotize away a neurological condition. You could, however, see a therapist for anxiety surroundin...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceTherapy & Professional
Trauma & PsychologicalAnxiety & Social JudgmentCure Claims / Alt-Treats
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2025
3 points

To see the impatient stare in others because you can't finish a sentence fast enough, the physical pain as you just can't use your vocal apparatus rightly, the lack of vocabulary 'cause sometimes isn'...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceSocial & Relationships
Feared Words & NamesAvoidance & SubstitutionAnxiety & Social Judgment+1 more
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2025
1 points

You literally said “anxiety and adrenaline”. The hoops some people go through to refuse to admit they are scared.. If you can say your own name when alone but can’t when giving your coffee order, it...

Emotional Experience
Anxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2025
0 points

The root of blocking is a physiological response to the anxiety and adrenaline of our stutter, causing the muscles to spasm and tighten up. If you dampen your anxiety and adrenaline response, you blo...

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Stress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2025
2 points

Relationships can always be tricky - regardless whether you stutter or not. You will naturally get along with some people more than others. I don’t think I’ve had a relationship end because of my stut...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceSocial & Relationships
Hiding & ConcealmentAnxiety & Social JudgmentHope & Motivation+1 more
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2025
0 points

Beta blockers (propranolol ) improves fluency indirectly by reducing the physical symptoms of anxiety and adrenaline overload. You take it as needed before a stressful speaking event....

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Avoidance & SubstitutionStress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2025
5 points

Trying to say something at work or with friends but ending up silent because you dread the stutter...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2025
2 points

Listen, not everyone deserves your attention or emotion. Bad people will always exist. Just like you don't fall in love with everybody you don't get angry or ashamed in front of anybody. Choose who yo...

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Anxiety & Social JudgmentAcceptance & Pride