commentr/StutterSeptember 19, 2016
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Well sometimes I feel even more anxious if I don't stutter, because I'm just waiting for it to happen. That anticipatory anxiety can be worse that the actual "right after the event" anxiety. I guess paradoxically we're just not used to talking freely and without an inner censor, and when it happens it's new and foreign to us and so it tires us.
Themes
Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Subthemes
Anticipating StutteringAnxiety & Social Judgment