postr/StutterAugust 28, 2014

I can't believe this book is not in the sidebar

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I can't believe this book is not in the sidebar Hey guys, so I've been stutterring since I was about 8 and up until recently I thought that I might have to live with this issue, even thou I have been trying to find the reason that I stutter while so many people that seem so much more but just so much stupider and close minded than I am speak so well. How is it that speech is so hard for me but so easy for them when I can basically do anything else better than them. I know I am coming across as an asshole right now but I want to show you guys my frustrations and true thoughts I had before I came across this book, this amazing game changer of a book. I posted this on a stutterring thread in longecity and since it is quite long I want to simply paste it here as well. Hey (some person on longecity), I hope you see this message because I have the perfect book for you to read and internalize. Its called Understand & Controlling Stuttering A Comprehensive New Approach Based on the Valsalva Hypothesis. It will fix any speech problems that you have that do not stem from physical injuries and/or deformities such as an excessively long tongue, brain trauma that effects the parts of the brain that affect speech or a lot of missing teeth. The main theory behind the book is that stutterers, because they are anxious when they speak (due to past stuttering experiences), "try hard" to push the words out. This act of trying hard, causes the valsalva system to activate. The valsalva system is a system of air passage ways that go from your lips and mouth to your larynx, to your stomach and finally to your rectum. When you "try hard" to do something you stiffen your body by activating valsalva system to pressurize the air in your body. When this happens, your larynx can not vibrate and allow sound to be produced. This causes a "block" which can manifest in repeated words, syllables, consonants or even gargles if the block is that bad. When you do this for years and years, it causes a neural pathway to form where you subconsciously activate the valsalva system when you are about to enter a speaking situation, especially ones that make more nervous than usual such as saying words that you know you have issues with, talking to pretty girls and/or speaking in front of an audience. The author of this book was stutterer until he was in his mid twenties, he became so frustrated with stuttering that he started to study neurology and speech to see if he could discover a way to cure himself, after a few years he discovered the previously mentioned neural pathway between the valsalva mechanism and speech mechanisms. He has since become a very successful trial lawyer and will probably soon be regarded as a genius in the field of speech therapy, or at least I think he should. There is more to it then what I have said, but this book has fixed whatever trace of stuttering I had, and it also does a good job of politely showing how idiotic all previous forms of speech therapy are, it'll make you laugh at how "experts" who have never stuttered talk so highly of their treatments which usually ultimately fail. Let me know if you have any questions, if any stutterer that is reading this post is on the fence, trust me this book is what you have been looking for.

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Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityCoping & AdvocacyTherapy & Professional

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Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringPropositionality & WeightFluency TechniquesCure Claims / Alt-Treats