Agreed with Schwarze, not dumb nor would I say I don't experience success. As a precursor to this unsolicited advice, I don't have any medical/professional experience with depression. That being said, I think you should probably see a therapist. Someone you can just sit and talk about your feelings with. You mentioned taking antidepressants in a previous post so maybe you've done this already but your post history is quite frankly horrific. Unsub from foreveralone, stop asking "askwomen" and "relationships" for advice, and take the advice asktrp gave you. Work on yourself to the point where you love yourself. The phrase "how can anyone love you if you don't love yourself" seems applicable here. Your constant approval seeking behavior (see 3 posts in FA about fitting in) is probably more off-putting than your stutter, so finding out why you feel the need to seek others approval is probably a good idea. So yeah. Stop the self-hate, and definitely stop grouping /r/stutter in with your destructive mindset. I saw in another post (not including this one) where you mentioned a generally negative outlook from this sub, and while I agree it's prevalent it's definitely not the only viewpoint or even likely the majority here. And another disclaimer, TRP worked for me, so I might be biased. Working on yourself, loving yourself, and not deriving your happiness from the opinion of others will do you a world of good. TRP is one avenue to get there. In terms of SMV, I would consider stuttering to only affect one of the aspects (social status). Just make up for it in other ways, ie. get rich and look good.