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Absolutely, anxiety can make stuttering worse. When you're anxious, your muscles tense up, your breathing can become shallow, and your mind may race, all of which can interfere with smooth speech. Man...

Because it's almost always multi-factorial. Anxiety is often just one of what are many issues. It's like plugging just one hole when there are a half dozen others....

Absolutely. Anxiety, stress, fatigue, etc., all contribute to making a stutter even worse. Even when you feel in control of yourself, those things can subconsciously undermine your ability to be even ...

Yeah, anxiety can definitely make stuttering worse. When you're tense or overthinking, it can make blocks more frequent and harder to get past....

Yes, stuttering and anxiety go hand in hand. As a matter of fact anxiety impacts everyone’s speech, PWS or not. 😀 Stuttering as a neurological problem comes first and the anxiety likely gets overlay...

Well, liars tend to stutter aswell. But that is never the only "tell", so I feel your pain. People make it so black and White sometimes.  Normally it's because lying makes them nervous. Nervous abou...

Yes it does for me and it’s the same way for when I get super excited but I still stutter while totally calm...

Yes, anxiety and fear affects the stuttering most. It can be improved by exposure therapy in which you have to gradually expose yourself to that situation where it's triggers anxiety. It's slow proces...

Yes, I think anxiety, excitement, fear, etc, but I didn't like meds though.  When i took them once for a short time, I couldn't feel anything, not joy, not excitement, nothing.  I remembered how much ...

Ya its weird nobody in my family on either side stutters but me, its usually when im asking someone for something at the beginning of the sentence.its so weird. Ill also notice ill go through phases w...

Yeah everyone has different levels of stuttering, stuttering runs in both sides of my family and I have anxiety almost always because it’s hard for me to get words out . I saw that anxiety can play a ...

Wait what do you mean ? I stutter while reading a book out loud but if I whisper I don’t or read in my head I don’t stutter. I’ve an anxiety around my speech ever since I can remember...

I guarantee u dont stutter by yourself. Ive gad it since i started talking. But i dont stutter on my own the worse my anxiety is the more i stutter it is 100% related...

I think anxiety exacerbates it for most, but stuttering runs in my family. And I'm talking great great grandparents who I never met, not people in my immediate family who I might have "learned" it fro...

Its what causes it.. unless you stutter while your reading yourself a book. Its the sole reason you stutter...

Yeah sometimes I forget I stutter when talking to someone and I’m very fluent. But unfortunately that’s not the case majority of the time. I hope the anxiety meds I’m gonna get helps because I truly f...

100 percent at least to me i stutter more when i think about stuttering and worried about it. But something that I have been able to do is trick my mind, whenever im presenting and its a big moment wh...

From my own personal experiences I do believe anxiety does make it worse, please do an update after you get anxiety medication I’ve been thinking of doing the same...

Much, much better. The stuttering is still there, but it is less frequent and less frustrating for her. Breaking the anxiety feedback loop seemed to help the most. Now when it starts, she knows that...

Been stuttering for 20 years now. I’ve realized recently that it’s gotten worse due to my mental health, more anxious and lack of sleep. I’ve been trying to make changes but it’s still an uphill battl...