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What I try to do is completely stop, take a deep breath in through the nose and out the mouth, feel my tightened muscles in my throat, mouth and diaphragm loosen and try to make any sound come out whi...

This is something a good SLP can help you with. Those faces are learned secondary behaviors, likely because at some points you were struggling to get a word out did some kind of physical contort and i...

Stuttering Faces

Stuttering Faces I (31M) make really weird faces when I start stuttering while I am talking. And that makes me really self conscious and increases my anxiety. How can I stop making weird faces when I ...

Anyone Else with Periodic Psychogenic Stuttering?

Anyone Else with Periodic Psychogenic Stuttering? I have normal verbal fluency under ordinary circumstances, but when my emotions rise, be it anger, fear, anxiety, frustration, etc. or when I have to ...

I tried to do that but I couldn’t my brain thinks that why would i stop and start over if i am almost there, this secondary behaviour thing is getting out of control in my case...

Do I have anxiety?

Do I have anxiety? I have a mild stutter, as I'm sure most of us do. My heart usually feels very fast, irregular and heavy in most situations, I get very shaky and out of breath, when I try to contro...

I kind of do, depends on the word. I struggle saying rural and Marlboro, now that I’m thinking about it my Italian accent is thicker because I can’t say r’s too well. I appreciate this post because I ...

Dry mouth and increase in stuttering ?

Dry mouth and increase in stuttering ? I have a mild stutter and work in a call centre and the doors and windows are always closed with the ac on constantly. It leaves the air quite dry I think and o...

I went on my own first date. And I had blocks and my way to tackle blocks is to tense my body and force the words out. Turns out I end up shaking when I do that and my date thought I had issues 😭...

25+ years. Really bad I would get blocked on first words and would always try to force them out and make weird facial expressions. Also would have repeat of words. His methods work if you’re consisten...

I used to avoid a lot of speaking opportunities. If I can go back in time to when I was in college, I would not avoid my introduction, because avoiding that made me more scared of presenting in front ...

Such a helpful description of a very important and misunderstood aspect of dysfluency. If you are like me and many others, you are averting eye contact. Try making eye contact and begin on an exhale...

I always find it difficult to explain. One of my two best friends refers to it as a "tic", but it's more than that. It's as if you want to speak, but your whole body prevents you to....

Something being caught in your throat, but clearing it won’t help. (For blockers) Not being able to control how many short syllables come out of your mouth (for repetition patterns) For elongated stut...

For me, my stutter is tension based, where my throat locks up. So I explain it as like, trying to cough up words but my throats locked up so I can’t. Or I say its like being strangled by words, or lik...

Same with writing for me and now when i play a game of marble pitch it takes me like 5 seconds to be able to peach the marble out of my hand and before i used to be able to play it normal now i lose g...

Ive added some more to my post but I have a similar experience to you. There are words which I've listed in my post which I am more likely to stutter on but I could say them perfectly fine for a whol...

same here, i used to get blocks on words starting with p... what i do is that i slightly touch my lips when saying 'p'...

Kept my promise and I really hope people here find it useful - Stuttering Veteran

Kept my promise and I really hope people here find it useful - Stuttering Veteran First, I would like to apologise for the delay in writing this post, I had my exams last week and just couldn't find t...

Something that my speech therapist told me, was breathing “with your tummy” rather “than your chest” causes less tension that causes blocks like that. For me, tension in my throat causes blocks, and w...