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What you’re describing sounds more like cluttering to me, than stuttering. Cluttering is more like the brain struggling to pace, organize, and monitor speech output. Stuttering is, at its core, t...
The only “overlap” between stuttering and drug/alcohol addiction is the neurotransmitter Dopamine. Addicting is “craving” that dopamine surge in the brain, and that euphoria that comes along with it....
Yep, it takes the edge off and makes speaking more effortless, which is how it SHOULD be! I find that effect after 3-4 alcoholic drinks. Why? Because alcohol floods the brain with GABA which puts th...
It comes second nature to them, like driving a manual car. There’s no thought that goes into it. It just happens automatically, neurologically. For stutterers, it’s a lot of hard work processing what...
Can’t be cured… yet! There are only fluency shaping strategies and possibly some meds which regulate dopamine in the brain to help with speech fluency. You need to find what works for you. Speak to a...
Ingrezza is the brand name of a medicine whose active ingredient is valbenazine. Ingrezza reduces the release of certain neurotransmitters (notably dopamine) in nerve endings, which helps normalize ...
I found relief from stuttering when I discovered that my brain is wired differently than a fluent brain. When I came across the research on the Valsalva response I was able to achieve fluency. I neede...
You can’t fully restructure the neural pathways involved in speech and timing to the point where stuttering permanently disappears. The brain *can* adapt (neuroplasticity), but we don’t have a way to ...
Interesting, Tourette’s syndrome (uncontrollable tics) and developmental stuttering share several neurological, genetic, and behavioral overlaps....
Have you actually been assessed for ADHD? If not, I would get that done ASAP to see whether you do in fact have it. It can be quite debilitating especially during university years, then you’ll have to...
Drugs which are used to treat ADHD, Tourette’s, Autism etc have been seen to improve fluency in stutterers because there are neurological overlaps between all these conditions. The common denominator ...
Correct - most stutterers have a hyperactive dopaminergic system in the basal ganglia, striatum and other areas in the speech motor neural networks. That’s why those antipsychotic meds which reduce do...
Anxiety, stress, fatigue, etc., exacerbate it for sure, but there's something much deeper (and likely personalized to a degree) to the dysfluency....
Yes mate there is. As we know already that , stuttering has no 100% cure but , Olanzapine and Risperidone really improve neurological developmental stuttering fluency a lot according to what I read on...
Nobody said anything about buying "any old crap in a jar from dubious sources flogging 'cure alls' that will only offer the illusion of temporary relief while subjecting your body to all sorts of unkn...
It's similar how some gay people in the past got pushed into the conversion therapy. It's how the brain is shaped in early childhood and it's not *just* emotional. It certainly osn't "fixable" in the ...
What we stutterers do is that we try to control our speech through gross motor skill try to force our words whenever we stutter but its a fine motor skill thats why our face goes weird or we face seve...
I find anything that causes a sudden dopamine surge in my brain, makes my stutter worse. Coffee, sugary drinks/foods, smoking and alcohol. However, after a few drinks of alcohol (spirits), GABA take...
Having a stutter is just anxiety & it’s fixable.
Having a stutter is just anxiety & it’s fixable. I have read so many times in this group from so much people that say having a stutter or a block is just emotional or that we’re afraid to talk hence c...
This is utter bullshit. Maybe for you it was an anxiety issue. I’ve had all the medical stuff & it’s 100% a neurological issue. I’m never scared to talk I don’t get anxiety I just have blocks/stutters...