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I used to smoke spliffs (weed + tobacco) for many years and quit for health reasons. In the 2 years I’ve quit my stutter has become much more pronounced, but it hadn’t occurred to me that the two migh...

Maybe because I’m on a cocktail of different meds? I always noticed a difference when I started a new psych med. for example, Prozac made it much worse. Zoloft made it better. Now I’m on 13 (?) d...

As a daily smoker, I would say weed either makes my stutter 10x worse or 10x better. It just depends on the day and who you are talking to. It affects everyone differently though. ...

Wellbutrin caused a temporary increase in disfluency for me. Maybe a month and half or so. Lexapro works well for me, and has no noticeable effect on fluency. YMMV....

I stopped taking my meds for 4 weeks or so last Feb and my stuttering came back ...

I have diagnosed ADHD-PI (Predominately inattentive) and sometimes I wonder if it negatively affects my speech. I'm prescribed Vyvanse and I've noticed I actually want to talk to people when I'm on it...

I used to take my parents xanax before every job interview. Very risky path, replacing one habit (stuttering out of control, using tricks, avoidances, etc) to another even worse habit is not good, im ...

Horrible way to cope. I was using Xanax for anxiety and to be less shy. I started taking every monday and thursday for 1 month, after that I started taking every monday, wednesday and friday because...

Alcohol/Xanax

Alcohol/Xanax I get drank in order to fluently participate in a job related meetup every thursday. I fear that am starting to go down a bad path. Are any of you using drugs/alcohol to surpress this?...

Yea I have Phenibut but not something you should take everyday and although it's good for my anxiety doesn't do anything for my verbal fluency. ...

Well, it is good that is works for you, I tried exactly this one, although taking about 2 grams per day and I saw no improvement in my speech. Yes, it helped with memory and I was thinking clearer. Bu...

Where did you find this information? And I'm assuming you're also saying the act of sex and climaxing from sex produces less dopamine than a video and your hand? Edit: I see your source. It already s...

Exercising produces a small dopamine boost combined with health benefits. Porn and masturbation produces an unnatural amount of dopamine which when done everyday can get your brain out of chemical bal...

You list dopamine literally as both a positive AND a negative. The Dopamine is bad after masturbating but good after exercising? ...

Yeah I experienced both to but when I smoke weed I don’t talk at all like I’m so quiet and when I do talk I stutter a lot?...

Some stutterers experience that. Some experience the inverse. I've experienced both things. Doesn't seem like there's any mechanic to it....

Stutter varies depending on context. Don't do drugs in the expectation that you can cure your stutter....

I guess it slowed me down to the point where my brain was not working so fast and I could talk without having the extreme anxiety that comes when thinking about saying a word as a stutterer. Yea, I te...

I didn´t want to say he should pressure their providers to put them on a certain medication. Sorry if I didn´t know how to express well, I mean that there are a lot of psychiatrists that don´t have kn...

It would be removed only for the part about it being 'proven' to decrease severity of stutter. That is, unless you have a credible, peer-reviewed citation that actually does prove this, which puts it ...