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Using speakerphone helps me a lot. Just holding the phone up to my ear brings the anxiety but setting the phone on a table and just talking to it like it's a normal person improves my stutter....

I stand up and smile. The standing up helps me breath better and the smiling keeps my attitude positive. Someone has mentioned that making sure you sit up straight would do the same thing - keep you...

I totally disagree I think slowing things down and focusing on your breath are fundamentals when it comes to controlling your speech. Guess we just disagree ...

I agree that those are simple things people say to help out stutterers but they are true and imo are at the core of controlling your stutter. Obviously there’s more detailed tools and tricks we can us...

I try to pretend I’m talking to myself rather than somebody else. It helps me a lot when I’m having a rough patch....

Distraction Techniques?

Distraction Techniques? how to distract oneself from the person in-front of you or unknown person over the phone so that you can bring out the words in a easy way. i find that when i am looking at the...

Hey OP, remember you chose your moniker 'freshwarrior' for a reason. I bet it was a good one. Many fellow stutters can relate as they fight with their own fluency. Sometimes the stutter wins the ba...

Before some important presentation, I first mention that I stutter, so I don't have to dread when I stutter and how embarrassed I will feel. Otherwise,...exposure therapy. I go socializing even if I...

Definitely. Slowing down my speech and breathing has been the biggest help for me. Practising talking while I breathe out has been another. ...

I find controlling breathing and slowing down my speech. Sounds silly but if I force myself to get lazy with how I talk it can help relax me. An odd sign of being in a stutter mode is when I've tensed...

Therapy, breath exercises, relaxing — all of these are good ideas and you should pursue them all. In the meantime, can you communicate more via text? I stutter more around my dad than anyone. I see ...

Yeah, that's what stutter does. It's hard. You might be able to make it easier, though. You could try attending speech therapy. There are techniques that could help you. - But the understanding tha...

Do you block completely on word or can you stutter through them? The ironic part about stuttering is the more we accept that we stutter, the less we stutter. 20 minutes of meditation and some affirmat...

I feel like I'm more empathetic than most. I listen really well and am generally very accepting of others' viewpoints and feelings, almost (sometimes?) to a fault. I also feel like I've grown to be ...

To treat something is to, “behave toward or deal with in a certain way”. In speech therapy we develop treatment plans or therapy plans for clients depending on the disorder. When working with a pe...

Mindfulness is becoming very popular in therapy plans to treat stuttering. This then stems to avoidance reduction therapy. If people find solace and help using specific techniques, strategies or f...

Thanks for the insight. I believe practicing mindfulness is very important to many of the aspects of stuttering including anxiety! ...

How my stuttering got better

How my stuttering got better Hey fellow stutters, Lately I've been feeling very good about my stuttering, which is why I decided to write a little post on this subreddit, maybe it will help you too....

I guess mood definitely has an effect on everything you do and everything tends to indeed get better when you're having rad days. I just started 3 days ago to listen to the audio book version of 'stut...

I think speech therapist might help you a lot . check it out and see if it helps . the other thing i heard about a lot here is mindfulness. check out some videos online and it might help you to reduce...