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I hear you on the anxiety. When I was in my early 20's I lived in a mountain state college town. The college area was across a river from the downtown area where all the bars were. Every time I c...

It's a touchy subject about anxiety and depression. I've been through that story, tried pills, quit a job because of depression, got suicidal, etc. Ultimately I've become very much against the industr...

I intended that saying as in terms of treatments. You will always have a baseline stutter unless new therapy comes out... Untill then, improving psychologically is the best thing you can do, as it is ...

My parents put me in speech therapy at 6 years old, cause crazy perfectionists. Worst desicion ever. I still feel my stutter is mostly psychological and had I not gone to speech therapy at 6 I would'v...

> Stuttering is mostly psychological, and cognitive behavioural therapy. Stuttering is no longer believed to be "mostly psychological." As stuttering is often aggravated by anxiety, cognitive b...

That person knew you from high school and still decided to make fun of you? It sucks that you had to experience it but to be honest that person probably has some personal issues that he is taking out ...

Yeah... it's really important not to get angry like that. You might want to talk about it some more with people around you (or us, for that matter). It can be quite unhealthy to be alone with that sor...

You were certainly not "asking for it." Engaging in a political discussion is asking for it? No. Yeah, I think you're right that stuttering hasn't quite been put into the category of sort of "no lo...

Agreed. Although the conditioning and past shitty experiences are so defining that it's hard not to think the worst. But yeah it wouldve definitely been my fault if I had done something....

Honestly, I think stuttering is a very personal thing. What works for someone to decrease it, might not work for someone else because they have other psychological issues. Example: If your teeth look...

Like I said, at the time I was meeting with this speech pathologist trauma as a cause of stuttering was a leading theory, and I do believe that you are correct in that more studies have shown a neurol...

6 years old is a normal age for developmental stuttering. Psychogenic stuttering does exist, but it is quite rare. Many parents attribute their children's stuttering to some *event*, but to be blunt t...

It was my understanding that there may be a psychological component to stuttering, in addition to the neurological causes. I'm 24 now, and I don't remember a time in my life where I didn't have a stut...

I second Out With It, my wife read it and she said that it made her much more aware of certain things that I struggle with or the types of traumatic experiences that we may have gone thorugh....

I'm deaf, and my girlfriend has a stutter. From what I've gleaned from her, and studied in my psych classes, stuttering can have many causes, but the biggest one is clinical anxiety. There's not much ...

There's no known cause, and it's more than likely not some emotional trauma he's buried deep down. Support him as much as you can. My wife has found all kinds of ways to take the burden off me and to ...

About to marry a stutter. I'm madly in love with him. He's uncomfortable speaking about it. Anything I should know to make his life easier? Thanks!

About to marry a stutter. I'm madly in love with him. He's uncomfortable speaking about it. Anything I should know to make his life easier? Thanks! Hi all, Just to be clear: I am not having cold f...

The biggest reason many treatment programs are not very effective is because they don't treat the mental aspect of stuttering (well enough). When they underlying feelings of anxiety, shame, frustratio...

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 sai...

Lisbeth: I was thinking about our exchange. It's not my business, but speech exercises miss the point entirely. At least for me looking back, 42 man now. That may actually subconsciously tell your s...