commentr/StutterOctober 28, 2015

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Definitely. I am in college right now and I worry about my future and if I'll be able to make it in the real world after school is over, or if I'm going to be able to finish school at all. Really, my speech impediment is a severe roadblock for me and I often cannot get what I want to say across without tripping over my words. I have to alter what I say to just simple things I know I won't trip up on and I can never really convey what I want to people without fear of sounding stupid to them. Even in my classes now, I have to give over 20 minute talks for some of them coming up and it's a total nightmare for me. I had to take a speech class earlier last year and we did 4 or 5 three minute speeches and doing those was almost all I could muster and I had to force myself to bear with the pain and awkwardness because I thought I wouldn't have to give anymore speeches again. I've never had what constitutes as a real girlfriend face to face and I probably never will. I think about my trying to cope with communicating if I got some job with a biology degree and I just feel I couldn't really get what I want to say across. Suicide became very alluring to me after I had a bad experience with a girl who I refused to have sex with that I just met this year as well. I mean, I have things I'm into like video games, anime, and music and stuff, but sometimes the loneliness does get to me. So far I'm too interested in watching the newest episode of my favorite anime, or I want to eat a cheeseburger and french fries today that stops me from wanting to do it and I think about all the negatives it could add to my life if the suicide failed and I live the rest of my life as a vegetable.

Themes

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceSchool & Work

Subthemes

Avoidance & SubstitutionAnxiety & Social JudgmentSadness & HopelessnessHelplessness & AgencySuicidal Ideation & High DistressSchool & Academic Life