Dependence on alcohol or other substances as a way of making my stutter lighter
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Dependence on alcohol or other substances as a way of making my stutter lighter I have been dealing with stuttering for so much time (since I can remember really) but there are still so many things I don´t and think I will never understand about it. One of them is how alcohol or medication like Klonopin ALWAYS makes my stutter way better even though I never felt like my speech fluctuations are emotional in the slightest. Does anyone go through this as well? If so, how do you get out of this? I was completely dependent on alcohol to get out and be social even with my closest friends for the longest time. Now it´s a little better since speech therapy has helped me get more confident and less ashamed somewhat of my speech. I just don´t understand how depressants like the substances I mentioned above can help so much and if that´s an indicator that my stutter has a big emotional component to it, which I´m kind of unaware about. I have periods that I stutter a lot even when calm but take alcohol, get drunk and my speech gets better.. I just don´t get it