I had a big insight the other day about stuttering and how my own habit has waned in the past, and waxed in other years. It seems to me that stuttering is a situation-based thing. A lot of people - including myself - who are stutterers, I think have a sense of deja vu when we're in a situation where our voice isn't working completely smoothly in conversations with other people. The sense is that I feel is that I have "walked through this situation before in my mind." So, the question I have is, "Are the habitual patterns in our life a schematic upon which our stuttering habit matches up?" My thought is that many of us stutterers are either creatures of habit, or are somewhat compulsive in our lives. One of the best ways to break out of these kinds of old life patterns, it seems to me, is to reassess our own personal ethics/values/personal creeds in our lives as they relate to these moments where we feel driven to do x y or z. Then, we might find that we reorganize our priorities that day, and have a much more relaxed time.