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stress/anxiety make it worse... so try to relax and breathe. managing ur stress will make ur stutter 2x less active...

You can do it, what I'm putting across is, you need as little stress and pressure as possible, and that's how to get rid of most of it. ...

Some people stutter because they stutter. The anxiety of knowing we stutter may in fact increase our stuttering. Many speech therapists now target the social/emotional aspect of stuttering as well a...

"Do you have anxiety because you stutter, or do you stutter because you have anxiety?" I get asked a lot...

"Do you have anxiety because you stutter, or do you stutter because you have anxiety?" I get asked a lot... ... and I just don't even know. What came first, the chicken or the egg? I was diagnosed wit...

Yes! Me too! End of semesters were hard because everyone's behind on something or the other and patience runs thin....

Usually when people start stuttering later in life there is cause to visit a doctor. In your case 13 years old is still young enough where you could have had a predisposition to stutter and something ...

I have a few members in my local NSA chapters that started stuttering later in life. One had a traumatic brain injury from a car accident. The other is an older lady who hit her head when she slippe...

Stuttering Anxiety

Stuttering Anxiety Hi all, I have this idea in my head that I cannot pronounce certain words without stuttering and I don’t know what to do about it. My surname just happens to be one of those words....

Take a vacation from your stress. One week will make a big difference. Get lots of sleep and regroup your vocabulary. Sorry to hear you experienced an extremely stressful/traumatic event. Time heals....

I disagree that stuttering is anxiety-based. Brain scans have shown that people who stutter have differences in brain structure and brain chemistry. Certainly we can all agree that we still stutter ev...

You just need to take a deep breath and and not let it get to you. I'm not going to ask you to tell me what happened, but try to fix the problem if you can. Don't stress over it, it will only make it...

I can't function.

I can't function. Ever since an extremely stressful/traumatic event a month ago, my stutter has gone from moderate to severe. I find it very difficult to complete simple sentences without getting comp...

Stutter-> loose confidence -> anxiety -> more stutter viscous cycle...

I do not. I've just noticed that it seems to be pretty common in stutterers I've talked to. I suspect it's related to why I stutter when I get really excited to say something. I'm older now so I ...

since english isn't your native language, do you stutter more or less in your native language? always wondered if other languages stuttered, which i know they do but always still wondered...

Sounds like it's worth a shot to me. The anxiety is the worst. I was dealing with a lot of that before the phone interview, and of course once the stuttering starts getting bad it just makes the anx...

As a junior in college who gets drunk before phone interviews/conference calls to deal with stutter anxiety over the phone, I commend you on your achievement. Hopefully I will get there some day. I am...

Awesome! That kind of situation is when my stutter gets the worst...

Been stressed lately, and my fluency has decreased dramatically

Been stressed lately, and my fluency has decreased dramatically Its getting to the end of the semester and a lot of projects and papers are due in the next weeks, and I have been stressing over it. Bu...

Does anyone know some effective relaxation tehniques??? (I need to presentate by tomorrow!)

Does anyone know some effective relaxation tehniques??? (I need to presentate by tomorrow!) So I have a pretty bad stammer, especially when I need to presentate something. Tomorrow I will have an exam...