If I stopped? The stutter returns slightly even if I miss a day. The longest I've gone without them was a four day weekend when I went away without my pills. My anxiety was high and my speech atrocious - especially when talking to my extended family who I was holidaying with. I don't know if it was just my imagination or their jaws actually dropped every time I made an attempt at normalcy. That cruel feedback loop where loss of speech control triggers anxiety, in turn worsening speech control with worse anxiety had well and truly set in.