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Wondering If Medication Could Help I have had a stutter my whole life I am 24, and obviously throughout my childhood i have never been bothered by it since i was always surrounded by friends and family which is obviously more comfortable and makes stuttering a little less daunting but as i have grew older and stepped out into the outside world i know that everyone doesn’t know me and people can not be so patient. Now i will always have a stutter i am pretty stable in myself to know its permanent and tbh I’m fine with it, but i have noticed that my stutter is much worse when dealing with strangers or going for job interviews or even dating and intimate environments which is unbearable. It isn’t necessarily the stutter itself that bothers me it can sometimes but it’s more the fear of being judged or seen as incompetent and looking ‘disabled’ when talking to strangers. My body seems to just tense up and go into fight or flight mode. I was wondering if potentially some sort of anxiety medication may help to reduce that sort of tenseness and relax more in high pressure situations potentially making me not think about the stutter too much and maybe speaking a little more carefree. Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated of course i’m not expecting diagnosis and i will see a doctor about this but maybe you guys may have experiences with this?