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>Bringing the attention to tensing up of muscles during blocks has definitely helped and understanding a lot of the times its bad timing to speak up. Yes I agree. Additionally, I believe that if w...

It took me too long to give a response to this as Ive been stressed out of my mind 😭 I would just like to say thank you for being so analytical in your thinking. I have been using these techniques o...

I have tried that and it is really frustrating because sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't work. But i can recommend you to use breath instead if hhhhh sound ....

A technique a speech therapist taught me is called a soft start. Where you put a soft "h" sound at the start of a word you block on and it just gets the air flowing. With a bit of practice it's not r...

I wouldn’t suspect non-stutters have any set of instructions when speaking. However, mechanically non-stutters seem to generate much less tension of the vocal chords while speaking, have a relaxed mec...

If i force myself to talk when I'm having a block it'll hurt my throat, and if I really push myself ill lose my voice for a few days...

Similar to what the original commenter said, basically aspirate the hard sounds slightly before you pronounce them. "Thank you" becomes more like "^(hh)Thank you." "Totally" becomes something like "^(...

All of that tightness comes from trying to not stutter. If you weren't trying to be fluent all the time you couldn't be blocking and you wouldn't have tightness. Of course this is easier said than don...

Yep, it was a real specialist in stuttering where I did speech therapy. I am going to see my doctor, he can also help me a little with this. The constant muscle tightness I can’t really say a lot abou...

Yes, you could be right the stress or anxiety evokes the conditioned response, which in this case is tightening the lips or other speech muscles needed for speech production. Anyway, what I was tryi...

I did not tense just now, this is a very common phenomenon I feel like and could it possibly depict that maybe stress/anxiety in situations around people are the true cause for the that tenseness?...

Also, right now if you (1) tense your lips as tight as possible, and then (2) pronounce the letter B or P. Did you stutter just now? What would you answer? I find this a good way to highlight the mis...

tightening, straining or tensing the mouth and other speech muscles is a secondary characteristic. People who stutter (PWS) tense these muscles, e.g., in an attempt to speak more fluently, to let the ...

Very interesting and not only is it that my speech muscle halt but they tighten up. This can result in soreness in my neck and tongue even....

"Th" has a chokehold on me that won't ease up. Struggling to say "thank you" over the phone sucks. Sometimes there's just silence because I'm physically stuck on the "th" sound and I don't want to not...

I've found they usually don't know about blocks and secondary behaviors. They think a stutter is repetitions only....

I can relate to this. And I uncontrollably hit my head when I stutter too. Its so annoying...

Majority of everyone’s stutter originates with breathing. When our diaphragm freezes it lowers the pressure below vocal chords making the vocal chords not vibrate as theyre supposed to. Because of the...

This is a shortsighted statement. Diaphragmatic breathing works but its requires hard work and skill to use it properly. And its by no means an easy task as we’re dealing with fear. When we encounte...

I sometimes need to close my eyes to get through a block. I don't know if it's because it's shutting out the world or it makes it so there's less info going to my brain, but at least it seems to work....