vicious psychological circle

[austutter]

Hi Guys

My first time on here

Im just wondering if anyone else believes their stutter is purely produced from psychological reasons.

Please everyone give me your thoughts on this, but i believe stuttering can have 2 completely seperate causes. It can either be a physical stutter, as in something like a phisical problem between the brain and mouth, or a psychologically produced stutter, like when even a non stutterer can sometimes stutter in a stressful situation.

I had a phisical stutter until I was about 16 - 17, this caused me to become very quiet and basicly learned not to try to speak to people, because I knew i couldnt. But having that phisical stutter for that many years basicly psychologically screwed me up for the future.

I am sure now that I dont have the phicical stutter, I have proved this to myself many times. To most people I dont stutter at all, this is because I am much better these days and because of my years of experience at hiding it.

This will sound mad but once I went on some new medication for athsma, an inhailer, and for a time i believed that the medication was co-incidently helping me with my stutter, for about 4 or 5 weeks I was stutter free, but then one day i thought to my self "wait a minute, there is no way an athsma inhailer can stop a stutter" and from that point on I stuttered again. That to me proves that it is in the Psyc and not phisical.

Also for me I find that after a few drinks my confidence increases and my stutter is gone again. Every time as soon as i feel a bit over confident, stutter gone.

anyone get anything similar?

If so any ideas on a fix for this, I dont think normal speech therapy will help. When ever i have had speech therapy classes I dont stutter at all, not even once, im just mister cool, I guess because the expectation in that situation is that I stutter, so i feel no pressure and dont stutter.

Its a wierd one!!!

Maybe i just need a shrink?

maybe Hypnotherapy?

[Perad]

but i believe stuttering can have 2 completely seperate causes. It can either be a physical stutter, as in something like a phisical problem between the brain and mouth,

I think this has been disproved by just about every person who stutters, if there was some co ordination problem then you would stutter in all situations.

Surely you find if you sing or talk to your closest friends you stutter a lot less if not at all.

This will sound mad but once I went on some new medication for athsma, an inhailer, and for a time i believed that the medication was co-incidently helping me with my stutter, for about 4 or 5 weeks I was stutter free, but then one day i thought to my self "wait a minute, there is no way an athsma inhailer can stop a stutter" and from that point on I stuttered again.

I stutter goes in ups and downs, mainly based on your overal confidence and situation, if you are approaching your exams and have just had a fight with your friends you will stutter a lot, this mainly because you are stressed about your exams and making up with your friends.

Yet if you are at the start of your year and everything is good with you then you should find that you stutter less. It might not be a massive amount but it should be a noticeable.

Thats what happens to me anyway.

maybe Hypnotherapy?

While hypnotherapy has seen promising improvements in a stutterer. http://www.stammering.org/stuttering_modification.html

This was with a hypnotherapist who specialised in speech and language therapy. I was investigating this a few days ago and the vast majority wanted to focus on words i have trouble with. This i feel wouldn't be too beneficial as i get stuck on different words in different situations.

[studentdoc]

Hey austutter - your story sounds IDENTICAL to mine (other than taking asthma meds). As soon as I say to myself - "this can't be" - , I stutter agian. it's so focking annoying!!!!!!! I dont know how to get rid of it - I have been seeing a hypnotist and he is making me a CD tomorrow because he's moving away and I am too busy with school to see him anyway. We'll see how it goes.

[studentdoc]

By the way - I read an article yesterday that said a new drug is coming out that "erases bad memories". I couldn't help but think (hope) that it might help us out. Search Yahoo news for it and you should find it. That's just a side-note but we gotta deal with what is available today.

[sign543]

I think stuttering, later in our lives as we become adults, is largely habitual. I don't know what causes it, but later in life, we find that our early childhood trained us to approach our speech with fear and stress...so our later bad habits of blocking or being stressed at all...are so difficult to break because they are habits based upon fear and stress.

Or maybe I don't know my ass from my elbow. <grin>

It's simple to break a habit of cracking your knuckles. However, if your knuckle cracking were a response to fear and stress...it'd be much harder to break.

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