CCure through self analysis? (work in progress)

[Perad]

OK, i was thinking about this on the way home tonight :)

Why do i stutter?

Now this is the question, if you find out why then surely you can take steps to remedy it. Another way to put this is..

Why do i do what i do? (This is a much better way of putting it)

Now to find this out i need to ask the following questions.

When do i feel uncomfortable?
How do i feel uncomfortable?
In what situations do i think i will get stammer?
What do i do when i stammer?
What are my thought patterns when i stammer?
What are my thought patterns just before/after i stammer?
What am i doing when i am speaking fluently?
What am i doing when i am stuttering?

These are my base questions, i will carry a notepad around with me for a week and i will jot down when ever the above are applicable. At the end of the week i hope to have a complete breakdown of what i do, when i do it, how i feel when it happens.

From all this i plan to organise it and blue tack it to my room. Grouping where applicable.

Now i can focus on the WHY!

I will know exactly when this happens and how i am feeling, i can then cross reference it with when i was fluent and make up a strategy for that specific occasion.

I can also look into why i stutter more in certain situations, delve into myself and work out why i feel uncomfortable and why i cannot talk to certain people. Finding these sources of uncomfortableness will surely give me the oppourtunity to address them.

This again is helpful in working out exactly why i stammer and what i can do to remedy it.

The idea is to connect situations to severity of stammer and the way i feel before and after these situations. Thus allowing me to target each individual situation and coming up with ways to fix it.

A stutter is ofcourse all in your head, fluent patches prove that. Hopefully this will lead to me cracking the source of it, or at least relieving some anxiety and getting back on track.

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Thats the plan, now i need opinions on this.

Please don't trash it, as i said above, this is a work in progress.

Is my idea sound?

Also have you got any suggestions? Any more questions i could add?

[Vermillion]

I have done everything you have said in your post. Did not work for me, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else. You're treating stuttering like a psychological disorder.

A stutter is ofcourse all in your head, fluent patches prove that.

Do fluent patches really prove that stuttering is all in your head?

[slimj]

My speech problems/stutter only occurs when

a) Im tired.
b) Stressed
c) When someone is making direct eye contact with me waiting for my reply.
d) Generally quite bad in a Meeting environment.

I have tried to monitor the when's and why's as you mentioned above but found it difficult to put anything into action.

However i am a very confident person when i am relaxed with friends and people at work, my girlfriend doesn't even know i have a speech problem..!!
My large group of friends either don't notice it or are used to it.

I find my problem is that i can also find myself speaking rather quick which can turn into a mumble when im not stuttering as i can be very hyperactive and find it difficult to turn my brain off to relax.

I think you will find it a difficult excercise but it could be productive for yourself even if some people think you are doing wrong treating it as a psychological disorder.

I am in agreeance with you as i can go for days with fluent... what else can it be.!

[Perad]

Do fluent patches really prove that stuttering is all in your head?

Well its not a virus... not a disease...

That leaves it being a physcological problem or a physical problem.

Now considering how i can speak for hours alone completely fluently and for long patchs with my gf without stuttering then surely that proves it isn't physical.

I also find myself feeling uneasy in certain situations, my speech is much worse during those times... now surely... that proves that the problem is all in the head.

When i am calm and relaxed i am fine, when i am not i can't speak to save my life... what else can it be

[studentdoc]

I highly doubt all stuttering is due to the same cause and obviously different levels so what worked (or didn't work) for someone may work for someone else. Keep on truckin...

[Standingtall]

It sure makes you think. I remember seeing an Bruce Willis interview regarding his stutter. I can't recall the exact words, but he lost his stutter when he is acting. I am pretty much basic with most stutters, I can sing without stuttering, sing in an choir, when by myself. Talking to my baby girls or to my stupid mutt. I stutter in from of my girls now, when I'm tired, stressed or pumped up with adreneline. I stutter when talking to my wife, but not when I'm wispering to her. I can answer the phone an half an dozen times and not stutter on my name and then on one, I can't say my name when I pick up the phone. I didn't have caller id at work for the longest time.

I know you are not the only brilliant mind looking for the missing link, but if you do find one, let us know first before you put it out into the market and make millions.

[Perad]

I know you are not the only brilliant mind looking for the missing link, but if you do find one, let us know first before you put it out into the market and make millions.

lol brilliant mind. Whatever next.

If i did find a cure trust me it would be through stumbling onto it, nothing more.

Anyway my idea needs to worked on before it goes into action... i need to work out how i will sort and analyse what i come up with. I also need to find some sort of measurement in which to rate my stuttering in each situation.

What i hope will happen is there will be a clear set of times when i stutter. I have been stuttering a lot lately and what gets me down is the feeling that i stutter everywhere. If i could prove it is only in a couple of situations i can begin trying to work out why.

Of course this could all be futile if it is passed down in genes.