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Another option is to actually face the root cause of the anxiety, and not just medicate it away. I used to get severe anxiety related to stuttering. Once I actively seeked that which scared me, the fe...

You'll stop being anxious all the time when you stop running from speaking situations. Do you want to die a coward who worked some shit job because it allowed him to stay silent? Start engaging your f...

I've thought about this a lot. The short answer: find a primary physician and get prescribed something for the anxiety. I was seeing a psychiatrist (for ADHD) and he prescribed me something called pro...

Anxiety does seem to worsen the stutter, though the two are not related. A speech therapist could help, I think. For a long time my stutter was almost imperceptible and now I & others notice it mo...

What is the perfect job for a person who stutters?

What is the perfect job for a person who stutters? I have mild stuttering. I don’t think its that bad but its enough to give me A LOT of anxiety at any job where I am required to talk, especially on t...

How helpful is speech therapy?

How helpful is speech therapy? Hello everyone! I have been wondering about this for too long now. I am 22 years old, and my stutter is becoming severe these days. I get silent blocks where I cannot u...

You're not alone, amigo. My stutter has gotten worse the past year or so. I'm 31. I know it's due to social anxiety. ...

I find it so hard to keep eye contact whilst I'm stuttering or in a block...

Mild stutter becoming more noticeable

Mild stutter becoming more noticeable I first noticed my stuttering when I was about 11 or 12. It has always been mild; it disappears sometimes, but it gets bad at other times. Now I'm in high school,...

Thank you. I'm just so sick of it and the people I am around don't seem to get what it's like when you can't get words out. It's a vicious circle of being stressed out, then stammering, then st...

Wedding Speech Nerves

Wedding Speech Nerves I was asked to give a speech at a relative's wedding this weekend gone by. It was one of those things that I couldn't refuse as it was with other people and I stupidly said befor...

Thanks for the reply! I agree I shouldn't have dismissed my rationale for why it happens. It does make stuttering worse because it adds anxiety and pressure before you even start talking. I agree that...

It's pretty common. You're not foreseeing anything. It's a feeling of expecting to stutter on a sound that you're used to stutter. On the flip side, if you convince yourself that you will speak slowl...

No, actually the times where I'm most susceptible to being laughed at is where my stutter is very mild and people may just think I'm nervous. If it's bad there's usually no laughing there. I have ba...

Maybe, maybe not. What if they're laughing about your hair? Try to view stuff like behind the back gossip as just that. I do the same thing, I think 'we' tend to put MUCH more focus on other people'...

Of course they are. While it’s certainly not everyone, or really even that many people at all, somebody somewhere is or has at some point. I think the more important question you should be asking your...

Behind your back

Behind your back Does anyone else get the feeling sometimes that people laugh about your stutter when you aren't around. It's a thought I recently started having that started making me worry a lot...

Hmm, I can't remember this being a pattern, no. But I suppose "being put on the spot" is likely to increase the chance of stutter?...

It’s just reading the slide show I made. It’s really not a big deal but it’s really worrying me because of my dis-fluency. Yesterday, I saw people do it before me and it looked like I could do it, but...

I hate not being able to present first, there's so much anxiety building up when you don't get to present. I wish you the best of luck and please think of how at ease you'll feel once you're done! ...