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I've ingested mostly just psychedelics. A little MDMA. And more than my share of cannabis. I really don't think any of them had a marked affect on my speech, positive or negative. As far as stimulants...

Oh I know it can be awesome in situations with high anxiety (I use it for flying, personally). It's just not practical as a realistic solution to stuttering, which I think we can all agree on. Being d...

I think xanax can be a very valuable 'tool'. I say tool because as you mentioned it's not something you want to take every day and constantly yawning / nodding off at work doesn't look that great. I w...

They don't reduce stuttering, they just reduce the anxiety that can exacerbate it. But I mean... of course being on Xanax helps reduce my disfluency. It also reduces my ability to function as anythi...

I'm 19 as well and worked at a hardware store over the summer. I have the same difficulty saying certain words or numbers and actually have rounded up like you mentioned. Talking over the radio was a ...

I know exactly how you feel, i just started full time work and i find it really hard to be around people all day.. just constant stress with my speech. ...

I work part time in a pizzeria as a delivery driver where talking to strangers is a necessity. Thankfully my boss and coworkers understand it's not something I can control. I think if anything, being ...

Speaking fluently at medical school interviews. Weird situation!

Speaking fluently at medical school interviews. Weird situation! A little about me. I'm in my late 20s. I have always had a stutter as a child. It went away in high school when I had lots of friends a...

Yes, I am aware of all of my problems and I know what to do in order to speak fluently. But as soon as I talk to anybody, my mind shuts down and all I can feel is stress. Like I forgot everything I ha...

How to Stop Stuttering: This is How I've stopped stuttering

How to Stop Stuttering: This is How I've stopped stuttering I think knowing a little back story to my history will help you understand my thought process , so here goes. My Dad, has a very intense s...

actualy he made me stutter. i didnt have air if u know what i mean for something like 3 minutes because i had pillow on my head. 2 days latter i started to stutter...

Possibility to get out of it? How to find motivation?

Possibility to get out of it? How to find motivation? So in Poland there are lot of 2 weeks vacations when people are trying to get out of it. I will go this year too. I stutter for like 5 years and t...

My life. Every day. It's the old circular stress pattern. We stutter, it causes stress, that causes the stutter to get worse, which causes stress, which causes... ...

I too stutter the most around my father, or I did anyways, nowadays It's is alright when I talk to him. But it's still there when I get stressed or nervous and try to say something to him. It's weird....

Definitely. If I had to self diagnos, I'd say it's stress/anxiety because like I said it didn't appear until after my marriage problems, and shows up only in stressful situations. It seems like I ...

Also an SLP, and I'd like to corroborate the need for investigation. It's important to be sure of the cause so that you get the right kind of support, whether medical management, fluency intervention...

You didn't scare me at all, that's one of the reasons I posted here. I tried to look online for something that matched what I was going through, but I really couldn't find anything other than for p...

I suggest meditation man. Sounds like you are under a good deal of stress, your mind probably never gets to rest. And I don't mean sitting idle watching tv or even reading a book, I mean sitting in si...

Developed a Stutter recently

Developed a Stutter recently To save from having to write to much personal information, I was on the edge of divorce, I never thought I could be pushed to the point I was at, and everything I said ...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/2m7w8l/hello_this_the_right_sub_for_speech_blocking/ Yeah blocking is really common. A lot of people dont stutter the typical way like b-b-b-ball and instead ...