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No offense, but if that is what your speech teacher told you, he/she/they seem a bit incompetent .There’s no support to the idea that limiting emotions will help with a stutter.Saying that to anyone s...

Depression and Stuttering

Depression and Stuttering This may be a weird question but have yall ever noticed a connection between depression and stuttering? My speech teacher once told me that by limiting my emotions then I can...

Sorry for your lost good thing he's in a better place and watching over you, I know life Is hard with a stutter but dont mean you should put your self on mute I have a bad stutter to and I feel you 10...

Sorry to say, but for me all that you describe has been and still is the story of my entire life... don't know your age, but unless you can overcome this somehow it will be yours to.. Sorry for not ...

From my point of view, stuttering is a truth. It is something that exists so I gotta accept it. BUT, it doesn't mean I shouldn't think about it as a bad thing, well I do. It is not ideal, and of cours...

I feel you. I always tell my friends that they should be grateful that they can speak fluently. I had a relative that was a bit younger than me but we were close enough. used to go to speech therapy ...

Feel envious of normal speaking ppl…

Feel envious of normal speaking ppl… I know this sounds weird but at times I look at regular ppl speaking and they speak so fluently and effortlessly and make other people laugh, make friends through ...

I totally relate to everything you’ve said, trust me I’ve been in a similar place. But please stop drinking, it’ll only prolong and exacerbate the issues. I get it’s tough, but if you want a long term...

Define mental illness... (rhetorical question) This is a slippery slope. IMO, stuttering is not mental illness. But I've observed a lot of mental illness in stutterers. Suicidal thoughts, depressio...

I think it's not a mental illness, but it defintely contributes to having overall anxiety / social anxiety, depression and low (really low) self-steam and overall insecurities...

Advice

Advice I've had some mild difficulty when it comes to speaking but it was like very mild, I didn't have stuttering but sometimes I would speak very fast and in a cluttered manner which made it kind o...

I've had days like this before, and it's not necessarily the event that brings the most pain, it's the realisation that there's a good chance I'll have to deal with this unwanted suffering for the res...

Cried My Eyes Out

Cried My Eyes Out I had a short presentation for a project at uni today. There were two of us working in collaboration with two other guys, on basically the same topic. The presentation was to be done...

Philosophy; Stuttering; Social Anxiety

Philosophy; Stuttering; Social Anxiety It is a western ideal to be the hero of your story - you could think of this as people who do exposure therapy to the things they are terrified of to become stro...

University presentation

University presentation I’m 20 yo and I have a stutter since I was young (my parents said i wasn’t born with it, it started after being bullied in elementary school) I was diagnosed with social anxiet...

"Sounds weird but ask PWS how many times they wished they were dead. " Yes, that does sound weird. Really, really weird....

Stuttering relation towards "unrelated" problems. (Q/Vent)

Stuttering relation towards "unrelated" problems. (Q/Vent) Hey, i just want your pov on this because i truly believe stuttering is the root of many of my struggles that i deal with. I'm 17 and live in...

I completely resonated with you when you said life is suffering. Arthur Schopenhauer, a german philosopher, once said : “Life is pain, and we only live to try to make it less painful.” He referred to ...

A talk about presentations

A talk about presentations Hi guys. So one thing I was really trying to wrap my head around was how, in North America atleast, presentations are mandatory throughout school: first it starts with theat...

Ugh. My mother and family had horrible infant nutrition education. My mom was starved and overworked for months because some family members did not like her at first. I'm about 4 inches shorter than m...