Search

I'm not a professional, but I'm pretty sure depression can have an impact on stuttering. I know anxiety causes stuttering for a lot of people. It seems like they would be directly related. I've alw...

In my experience, alcohol does make my stutter progressively worse. I think of myself as quite desensitized of social anxiety while stuttering in my daily life. Alcohol though makes me more self-aware...

I understand both sides. It's like if you don't practice a talk you can become nervous and not be able to talk very well and then stutter. BUT if you agonize over what you say, you become tense, don...

My speech definitely gets worse when im entering an uncertain period in my life or some new event im not completely confident about. Breathing has always been very difficult for me because subconsciou...

Stress from changing life conditions can definitely bring back or worsen your stutter. I was made fun of in high school and stuttered worsened to the point where I wouldn't speak anymore. In college, ...

I had a stutter when I was about 7, it only lasted a few weeks though. It came back when I was 15/16. I'm 18 now and it hasn't gone anywhere. It might be a shortness of breath thing. I stopped playing...

Stuttering, stress, and breathing

Stuttering, stress, and breathing Hello all, I had huge stuttering issues as a young child. So much so that they almost sent me to special school. After years of therapy and working hard at it, I g...

Just wanted to drop by and say hi. Thank you for sharing your story. Here is my story. I began to stutter around 4th grade when I moved to a different school 2/3 of the way into the school year. I gu...

you're going to run into a couple problems -- 1) Intoxication produces more than one change (thus you have inextricably linked dependent variables): alcohol impairs motor control (particularly coord...

What helped reduce my stuttering was getting prescribed to citalopram (generic Celexa, ssri), it took about two months to take into full effect but it lessened the anxiety that came on whenever I tal...

I think we're in the same boat. I can recall situations where I've been initially nervous, got a little tipsy, and had my speech improve as I forget how nervous I was. The same thing happens as I get ...

I think you need to be clear that its not ethanol that is making people's stutters better, it is the fact that they are intoxicated and less nervous when speaking to other people. You will see the sam...

Hi /Stutter, I am a 3rd year University student, looking at the effects of alcohol on stuttering and thought some of you could offer up honest opinions?

Hi /Stutter, I am a 3rd year University student, looking at the effects of alcohol on stuttering and thought some of you could offer up honest opinions? Hi, now this is in the early stages of developm...

It's different for different people and I think it depends more on personality /psychology than anything. For me, it loosens me up and the natural anxiety in me doesn't act up as much. But unless you'...

It gets worse the more nervous I am, that is true. But I can't help becoming nervous whenever someone asks me something (even my family), because I know I will fail. That wasn't as big of a problem ...

Maybe it's because you're nervous? You know, a new surrounding, new people and you know you have this stutter, seems to me your nervosity is causing the stutter (just guessing here), perhaps you can t...

Speaking fast?

Speaking fast? Hi, I have a general question, does anybody here speak fast? My stutter was really bad like 5/6 years ago, being scared to talk in public, but my great speech therapist helped me a lo...

[Vent] Interview

[Vent] Interview Currently looking for a new job, ironically in a field that has me talking, presenting, and communicating verbally a great deal. I've been a stutterer since I was a child, where I ...

This is actually a common misconception. Stutterers dont stutter from anxiety or nervousness, but it is exacerbated by it. The root of stuttering doesn't come from anxiety, it is a neuro-motor miscomm...

Sometimes it takes very little to set off stuttering, sometimes it takes a lot to set it off. Since anxiety CAN also be one of those things that begins genetically, but, is also neurological/physiolog...