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This is really hard to explain in brief but I’ll try to be as concise as possible: The most common kinds of therapy (fluency shaping) teach you ways to MANAGE your stutter so it’s almost hidden. That...

It could also be ptsd from it - I experience that. I also have been in therapies just talking therapies and self exposure therapies etc. for the last 5 years which is the most helpful cuz then someone...

Now where are all those people saying that stuttering is neurological? ... I have read about many people who started stuttering because spent a lot of time with people who stutter. This shit is purely...

Everything is related, but in the case, likely very little. Stuttering could contribute to your defense shell you’ve built around you, but so could many other factors. Empathy can be described as a l...

I get it that there seems to be some sort of genetic/neurological component to stuttering. But I think you should really sit down and imagine yourself walking through each area of your life. Whether t...

I had severe OCD in childhood this could explain why i developed a stutter....

Right. But I think most people that stutter have a root word in which the stuttering gets extended to other words and sounds. For me, my stuttering started with M words because a woman around my age I...

Thanks! ¡VERY GOOD! As you can heard from Paul, he thinks that mushrooms helped him developing new neuronal pathways and re-seting the neurology of the human brain so he can elocute in a diferent wa...

Totally! Glad to hear it helped improve your mental health. I think that is a huge part of why a lot of us stutter be it trauma or self-confidence issues, etc. Did you get psychedelic treatment via a ...

While I was being born the umbilical cord somehow got wrapped around my neck. I was loosing oxygen(hypoxia) and blood to my brain, as the doctor tried to yank me out with forceps. I was also slamming ...

You speak great. Being nervous and trauma like the above comments are totally correct. Learning to undo that takes time...

This. I would say 90% of the stuttering will go away with the right mind set and right emotional control. I have experienced this a few times, when I'm not thinking at all in my words, and I'm extreme...

Results will vary. Psilocybin does wonders for treating my PTSD, but my stutter and stammering are still triggered by certain people or circumstances. (Mine started after enduring severe trauma and vi...

To answer your question though. IMO it’s a learned response triggered from trauma. The years of being anxious about your stutter just builds up and you have these involuntary reactions (blocks) to sit...

SLP who Stutters

SLP who Stutters I became interested in becoming a speech language pathologist because of my own stutter. My stuttering consists of mostly blocking & struggling behaviors (looking away, blinking, ...

Came here to say this as well. It randomly showed up in my feed. u/Amayax you're a sweet person. 🙏🏻...

That’s because most of our stutters are psychological. We think we are incapable of making certain vocal sounds, so we hesitate. We have conditioned ourselves to hesitate our actions, and sometimes th...

I don't believe I have any mental illness. I was tested when I was younger if I was on the spectrum, which I'm not, and I'd like to think they'd have noticed if there were any other mental issues. I...

I know this is 3 months ago, its just google led me here based on my question. In terms of jittery, do you mean nervousness or do you think theres a possibility of some kind of mental illness like bip...

Hmm that is very interesting, is your stutter repetitions or blocks or both? Unrelated but kinda related, I couldn’t cough when the doctor asked me to due to a block. My throat/chest locked up I gues...