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To answer your question. I think that anxiety is very much related to stuttering. In fact my advice would be to try to reduce the anxiety if possible and try to accept the stuttering. the accepting it helps to cure it while fighting it makes it worse. As to how do you reduce anxiety you should try to pick friends and associates that are more accepting and avoid those that make you uncomfortable. ( My brother was somewhat mean spirited and certainly did not help my stuttering) . If at all possible I would suggest getting out of classroom presentations or working in a team where you do other work and others give the presentation.
As four questions about drugs to reduce anxiety it may help but you would have to talk to a doctor.
I believe that stuttering is more of a anxiety problem than a speaking problem. I have overcome my stuttering but once I got on an airliner next to a large woman. She asked ( or demanded) me where I had come from and I did not stutter at all. But all the anxiety kicked in and I could not remember where I had come from???
There was a post on this board from a person that stuttered and saw his sibling beginning to stutter and was able to reverse the trend. Probably be being as accepting as possible.
Above all try to feel good about yourself.
On another note there are some reading material you may find interesting. The short story Billy Bud by Herman Melville and the article “The Monster Experiment” in the Feb 16 2003 issue of the New York Times Magazine. |
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