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I was just curious, it's not an attack, so no need to downvote. As you can see below, I wasn't aware stutter was in the DSM/ICD....

You can get off label prescription medication for the mental side of stuttering. And stuttering mentioned/listed in the DSM too......

It is not because he believed that stuttering is a mental disorder, but that the medications that I was asking for to treat stuttering are associated with use for mental disorders. He felt that he did...

So your doctor referred you to a psychatrist simply due to stuttering? I don't think I've heard of that before. I mean, it implies stuttering is a mental disorder, doesn't it? That doesn't sound inter...

Is stutter the only reason you're at a psychiatrist? How'd that come about? Usually people end up at a speech therapist. Also, there's no scientific consensus about stuttering yet....

Your argument does not have merit it has personal narrative just all perceptions do. In order for an argument to be valid it must be deductively valid meaning true premises and true conclusions. In or...

Read the article, couldn't watch the film. I doubt one can understand excactly how someone with a disability feels by just beein friends with him. I can't name one person in my life that gets how I fe...

Sure, different things work for different people. Stutter is not well understood, so there's a lot of variance that we can't quite account for....

It is a physical condition like an eye twitch. I can be stuttering when very comfortable with my friends. However, nervous situations can make it worse but does not cause the condition. ...

Stuttering is a communication disorder. When you talk to yourself you don't communicate with people. You don't hit your stuttering threshhold in a low stress situation like that. Doesn't mean it's pur...

Stuttering, for me, is totally mental. I can read and talk to myself all day with no issues. Get me in front of people and I stutter and stammer all day....

Definitely think stammering can be conducive to mental illness, namely anxiety but others such as depression too. British Stammering Association made this [tweet](https://twitter.com/stammer/status/78...

I am a stutterer. Stuttering is a physical condition, not mental. However, certain situations can make stuttering worse bit don't cause it....

How do I escape the "it's not fair!" emotional paradigm?

How do I escape the "it's not fair!" emotional paradigm? Having any kind of a disability is probably drawing the social short straw. We all know this deep down. This however eats at my emotional well ...

Sounds like wishful thinking to me. A person with autism can't fix his faulty wired brain either. A severe stutterer faces the same issue. You are basicly shaming them for something they have little c...

> I know things are bad and alot of things won't change. I'm not blindly positive. I am pretty realistic and I know certain things are impossible. I know what the statistics are and they say ill p...

Not entirely true. When you talk to yourself in an empty room you aren't communicating. Stuttering is not just a speech disorder but also a communication disorder....

I agree to that extent. At the same time those who have stuttered severely 10/20+ years can't just reverse the irregular movements of the cural diaphragm. Well I mean, you can but it'd take atleast a ...

That's great for you. How severe was your stutter? My guess is that having a slight stutter is easy to technique against, but the more severe it gets, the harder it is to use techniques, especially on...

I dislike calling stammering a disability in my case at least, it probably just comes from a place of denial. I totally agree with you on bigotry coming from a place of stupidity. Damn making drunk ...