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Thanks for sharing. Im glad your son found some relief. I, too, tried SSRIs for about 3 months' time before getting off them. My personal experience with SSRIs was that at age 26, I was put on Lexapro...

If you ever decide to try or change medication in the future, Wellbutrin has been known to make stuttering worse. I just restarted on it because it has helped my mental health in the past but, there i...

Thank you for sharing. I, a 41 yr old male, have had a very similar experience with Lexapro/Cipralex (10 mg). Prozac was one of the first SSRIs, if I'm not mistaken, definitely before Cipralex came ou...

Stutter and SSRIs

Stutter and SSRIs I wanted to put this out there in case anyone else wants to give it a try. My oldest son is 14 and a freshman in high school. He's had a severe stutter since 1st grade and he also ...

I think you are 'heavily' underestimating the severity of neurological stuttering. Neurological stutterers stutter even when they are alone, so it has nothing to do with anticipation or compulsion....

Glad for you, but have you ever been in situation when you where you find yourself in a strong block and can't get out of it? I know no one cares about presentation I give, but often I say only one wo...

Where can I practice shouting out to crowds?

Where can I practice shouting out to crowds? I need a place to practice shouting names to groups of people, preferably strangers. Having trouble yelling words that start with “D” and “B”. Help please....

Lately, i am feeling like Harvey specter in interviews!

Lately, i am feeling like Harvey specter in interviews! Omega 3 + Magnesium My stutter and brain function have improved 100x. >Anxiety is gone. Before I had very bad anxiety, whenever I had to wa...

I block when I’m tensed

I block when I’m tensed Hi guys, I have more of a block rather than a stutter and wanted some advice on it. When I’m talking to myself I can speak fine, however when I’m talking to others my body ten...

Adult onset stutter that occurs after a brain injury. It involves multiple symptoms—prolongation, blocks, repetition, tension, aphasia, dysphasia —we’re producing the right words, but our neural pathw...

Well I've tried it before. Im in uni and last year I had to present in front of the whole group. I stuttered bad tbh :D...

Several examples… I had a (very wealthy) senior board member of a non-profit publicly tell me to “spit it out” in front of the entire board while doing a complex planning session. That phrase is pre...

Hey! I’m an SLP student, I also have a stutter. 1. Limiting. I’m 24 right now, I didn’t start to really accept my stutter until I was about 22 and a half. For years I tried to “fix” it or change it. ...

For info I'm 19M 1. The question is a bit vague, but overall it's always been a very bad experience. I'm a human, and I'm not able to properly do the main thing humans are supposed to do, talking, I'...

1.) Frustrating, especially when mocked or people finish sentences for me. 2.)Yes, worse in high anxiety environments (work, large crowds, meeting new people) Lost the stutter for five years, came bac...

1. Pretty normal. Frustrating at times but I don't feel like it's ruining my life or anything. 2. Yeah, it has it's ups and downs. It used to be much worse a few years ago and recently it got much be...

If you ask chat gpt for a cure to stuttering, one of the possible treatments is beta blockers. Haven't tried them myself and not going to but supposedly it works by suppressing your nervous system, th...

I take citalopram (SSRI) it’s helped me a lot but it’s also mentality as well! When i’m confident and don’t take it one day I don’t stutter at work, I’ve found my anxiety is worse when i’m tired so at...

There kinda are some medications that lessens or cancels stutter completely, but we each have different causes why we stutter. My case is social anxiety and anxiety in general. And I would not even su...

Anti anxiety medications but those have terrible side effects for me its not worth it, then theres natural calming supplements like magnesium or l theonine that supposedly works for some people here....