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HOW I WAS CURED and You can too ;). ​ SO, I was stuttering like HELL, and indeed hell it was... at school and every social interaction through my life from age like 11 to 17. You know the drill. It was like 2006, at age of 16 out of desperation searching through internet for cure i found the place where they claimed that they can completly CURE me, even the worst helpless cases. \[AND THIS IS TRUE\]. Long story short - I arrived there with my parents, we agreed to do this thing. It was very expensive - (but mind I'm from Poland, so we - especially then (2006), didn't have much money). The savior in my case was Bernadeta Dziekan-Standowicz who follows method developed by Russian professor. [https://www.jakanie.net/terapia/efekty-terapii-przed-i-po](https://www.jakanie.net/terapia/efekty-terapii-przed-i-po) It's in polish - but if you can translate this site, you will clearly see results. I'm talking way better now then some of them in this videos by the way. This is the method of prof. **Lilia Arutiunian**, *Arutyunian* (Арутюнян), *Andronov* (Андронова). Method is intense and rather hard to follow. Treatment takes around a year and involves multiple things. It helped that I was in this age - people treated me as WEIRDO anyway, so I didn't bother to stall the process, and for all year I keeped the regimen. It starts with two week training given in a small group. It comes in a form of every day classes that take around 6 hours. Class starts and ends with 20 minutes of guided relaxation. After that you practice speaking but in a certain way. The goal is to learn speaking extremely slow and with coordination with your dominant hand. It is designed to help coordinate use of whole speech apparatus. Therapist gives you texts to read and a chance to speak spontaneously (end sentence, respond to question). So for those two weeks you practice and you are not allowed to speak outside of class (!). You are also given homeworks (you must do them everyday). At home read out loud in a new way. Plus you need to start speaking this way in every day situations. Moreover, you need to create them on purpose rather then avoid them. Go to shop, ask about an hour etc. This is designed to desensitize yourself to fear of speaking and embarrassment stuttering people usually have. After those two weeks you get back to normal life and you have to speak that same way for a year in all life's situations. Speaking new way is rather challenging during whole time. But I was going too fast, anyway but It worked. Stuttering came back somethimes but for short situations, when i was very drunk, or very stressed, and anxious. But i can say 99% of time I'm extremly fluent. And you know, after all this, I even get in to one of the most prestigious universities in my country, that required ORAL EXAM, so you know I couldn't dream about it if I was stuttering the way i was before (basically unable to speak at some times block was to strong). So there you have it. It's real method that takes lot of work, and works, not some vitamine supplement..