Stuttering and Dopamine(ual activity)

[adrenalin06]

The question i am asking is pretty unorthodox in the sense that this perspective hasn't been discussed before. I have done a fair amount of research on this issue without any tangible conclusion. Its widely acknowledged that high levels of dopamine in the brain are one of the major causes of stuttering. Its also known that any ual activity which leads to including and causes the brain to produce dopamine. Therefore is it possible that keeping ual activity to a minimum will help cure stuttering?

[Nemo]

It's widely acknowledged that high levels of dopamine in the brain are one of the major causes of stuttering.

How widely is this acknowledged? Many experts would disagree with this statement.

Is it possible that keeping ual activity to a minimum will help cure stuttering?

A horrible choice, if this line of thinking is correct ... I knew it was all my wife's fault ... seriously, one would expect that (good) can result in a discharge of tension, feelings of satisfaction, relaxation and improved speech. On the other hand, if you feel guilty about the it could result in more stuttering. I'm sure that can have an effect on stuttering, but the reasons can, in my opinion, be found in the way in which tension levels affect the vocal cords.

[elliejelly]

Therefore is it possible that keeping ual activity to a minimum will help cure stuttering?

I think if that were true then no children would stutter at all - and we all know that this is not the case. *shrugs*

[Box of Clocks]

Interesting idea but as elliejelly said it doesn't really hold too much water due to the point she made aboout children. I don't think most adults would be prepared to go without some kind of ual release to see if it would help anyway.

[MarkBulger]

I think if that were true then no children would stutter at all - and we all know that this is not the case. *shrugs*


You mean pre-adolescent children, right? :o

[jamesm]

I don't know about you guys, but my most fluent moments in LIFE are during (lol) and right after !

LOL< this may be TMI> but I didn't stutter for like 3 or 4 days after I lost my virginity!! I felt invisible!! LOL.

[DekHog]

If that's really the case, I'll keep my stutter, thanks very much... :D

[philostam]

Dopamine is related to your need. When you are in love, and it's working, you stutter less, because you don't want to be fluent but to get the girl/boy, and these are not the same "excercises", so if you want love more than speaking (and it works) than you don't stutter (that much).

That's true for all the activities. Have you seen the almost unwatchable video of the severe stutterer who volunteers to a play, and actually he manages to say his lines fluently (it's on youtube)? And after that he falls back to severe stuttering. That was because he was under pressure to act, so he miracoulosly "forgot" about stuttering for that highly dopamine-flooded moment. Because his dopamine was not related to stuttering.

(That's why from Demosthenes to Churchill and Bruce Willis so many stutterer chose an orathorical career. They are the compulsive masturbators who are recovered by being s. Sorry about that metaphor, but that's very accurate.)

Fluency-obsession is the strangest elixir, because if you drink it, you stutter. And even if we now that, we must drink it. I wonder, why.

[chris2112]

Dopamine is related to your need. When you are in love, and it's working, you stutter less, because you don't want to be fluent but to get the girl/boy, and these are not the same "excercises", so if you want love more than speaking (and it works) than you don't stutter (that much).

I think your making an excellent point here, our enthusiasm for achieving our desired goals must be greater than our fears.

[jankren]

LOL< this may be TMI> but I didn't stutter for like 3 or 4 days after I lost my virginity!! I felt invisible!! LOL.
Lol, thats hilarious.

[happy7117]

It's about time somebody made a thread that address this issue!! Way to go.

I started a thread like this about dopamine last year and the M word a long time ago, and how ual activity could maybe make stuttering worse because of the chemicals in the brain it releases.

Some immature people/idiots on the forum took my thread as a joke and didn't realy take it serious. They thought of my thread as sick and disgusting--but I was serious. And I never realy got a satisfying answer.

Maybe because I wasn't sure how to word my post without it sounding offensive.

Anyway- you have rehashed a thread I started last year- and I am glad you were able to word it better than I ever could...!