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IT Engineer here. Went from Help Desk (call center type work) to Desktop Support (face to face interactions) to now Systems Engineering where it's a mix of dealing with users, colleagues, and vendors....

I took Prozac and Zoloft at different times. They seemed to calm me down. There’s really nothing else to turn to....

Chemical engineer here with a very managed stutter. I do high tech facility designs and I work with numerous clients, contractors, and various other engineers. I've stuttered embarrassingly in front ...

That is definitely a valid concern you have regarding addiction. I struggled with a lot of the same concerns before I started exploring my options with my therapist and doctor. Anti-anxiety and any ...

Help with stuttering

Help with stuttering My stutter is pretty mild but lately i’ve been noticing my stutter more therefore making it worse. I only stutter when i tell myself i’m going to or if i get nervous about stutter...

How to Unblock ?

How to Unblock ? The worst thing about having to deal with stuttering are tonic blocks. Sometimes , i get these "micro" blocks. They usually last for half a second or 1 second. But some of the time ,...

My high school class is reading Shakespeare right now zzz Every time there are more roles than people willing to read, the teacher uses a random selector to choose. The amount of anticipation is over...

I've been stuttering for 43 years -- here's my story.

I've been stuttering for 43 years -- here's my story. I want to share what I have learned over the years in the hope that I can be helpful to others that are struggling. It feels really good to write ...

No way! Totally opposite for me. Look at me in the eyes and I’m blockin’. ...

If I don't stutter/stutter very very little around children and people younger than me, can I replicate that with adults.

If I don't stutter/stutter very very little around children and people younger than me, can I replicate that with adults. I don't stutter at all around children and people younger than me, but when sp...

Being in the military with a stutter

Being in the military with a stutter I joined the military roughly 4 years ago. I was scared shitless to go to boot camp having a mild (when calm) to moderate (when stressed) stutter. Before I joined ...

Is there anyone else who is the total opposite? I find it very difficult to say my name or do short responses but I can breeze through a conversation any day....

Biggest interview of my life this weekend

Biggest interview of my life this weekend Hi everyone. I have a really important interview this weekend for a scholarship to my dream school, and my stuttering has been getting me down. I wrote about ...

To me it depends on the severity of the stutter and the experience overall. if i stuttered really bad then ruminating for me makes me depress, i start to think about the whole situation and thinking o...

Yeah this always happens when I talk without caring I stammer way less and when I think about it loads and keep replaying myself stammering it’s way worse ...

Yes. SSRI’s add dopamine to the brain, and people who stutter have 50-200% more dopamine, so it had been studied and found to increase stuttering....

Yes, premeditating for me causes a bunch of anxiety and stress to build up. I’m better off if I just don’t even think about it and just say it....

Thinking about stuttering before speaking, causing you to stutter worse?

Thinking about stuttering before speaking, causing you to stutter worse? Hi everyone first post here, I have a mild stutter but i find when i have to repeat myself or when its my turn to say somethin...

i went to a club meeting recently where we played an ice breaker where if someone said our name we would have to *quickly* say someone else's name before we got tagged and would have to stand in the m...

"We are going to go up and down the aisles and each read a paragraph." (furiously calculating which paragraph I was going to have to read and rehearsing)...