Stuttering Support Group
Stuttering is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by prolongations, repetitions, and blocks of sounds, syllables, words or phrases. Give advice, share your story, and find any support you might need here.
I've had a stutter my whole life, if I'm in a calm environment with people I know it's pretty mild, if I'm meeting new people or speaking in public it gets pretty intense.
I'm doing my doctorate in clinical psychology right now, my speech was a major concern of mine before entering but now I'm really feeling limited by it. I have to do all kinds of presentations for school and they never go very well. I start stuttering and get embarassed and shy away from the point I was trying to make. I also do a bunch of therapy, it's always a huge fear of mine that a patient will hear me stutter (which I'm sure they all do), call me out on it or walk out of the room. I'm working at a hospital right now and really feel my stutter limiting how effective I can be. I'm feeling really embarassed and inadequate and I can see my co-workers looking down on me.
Can I go through with this doctorate and have the career I've always wanted, or is my stutter going to be the end of me? Help!
I'm doing my doctorate in clinical psychology right now, my speech was a major concern of mine before entering but now I'm really feeling limited by it. I have to do all kinds of presentations for school and they never go very well. I start stuttering and get embarassed and shy away from the point I was trying to make. I also do a bunch of therapy, it's always a huge fear of mine that a patient will hear me stutter (which I'm sure they all do), call me out on it or walk out of the room. I'm working at a hospital right now and really feel my stutter limiting how effective I can be. I'm feeling really embarassed and inadequate and I can see my co-workers looking down on me.
Can I go through with this doctorate and have the career I've always wanted, or is my stutter going to be the end of me? Help!
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Hey. I'm sure you've tried it, and I know it's always easier said than done, but what about trying to calm yourself (okay, I don't know how, but there's gotten be a way!) in situations where you are not comfortable? Like maybe imagine the person that you are talking to (that you really don't know well at all) is a close friend of yours. Maybe that'd make it better.
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YES TWO DEGREES LAW QUALIFICATION NOW DOING NUTHER MA IN WRITING YES. I used caps cos want to emphasise it. YES
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Hello There, you might not take my input into consideration since i am only 15 but i have been living with this from as young as i can remember and i go to school everyday and i suffer badly because i have oral presentations and everytime i try and talk to someone people always laugh and make fun of me. i feel embarrassed everyday and i have no idea what to do, ive been to a speech therapist and that helped for a while but didnt last to long. i have my ideal job in the future but i can see my stuttering standing in the way of my future. i need help if anyone can help me.
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devilzdaughter -- what's your ideal job? I have to give constant oral presentations too, they're never easy... what helps me sometimes is to hand out some written material (i present cases of patients I see) so that the audience can read along, even if you stutter badly. Also, I try not to read off of a script, just have some basic points to go off of. I find this much easier, though I still do stutter a lot. The MOST important thing, and I know it's hard, is to hold your head high no matter what and go for the career you want. Anyone who laughs at you is an idiot and doesn't deserve your attention anyway. Don't be discouraged!
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my ideal job would be to be involved in the computing field or if i cant succeed in that being a childcare worker would be my next option due to me loving being around kids. its realy hard to ignore the people around you when you have to spend the whole day around them and are also in several other classes of mine. i try not to be discouraged but i find it hard at times to let things go over my head when it does affect me and makes me feel horrible.
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Hello, My name is mark and i beleive i can help you, i too stutter but have learned to control it quite nicely, and would love to share this with you. and anybodyelse who stutters , no money involved my help is free, email me at stutteringmind@yahoo.com
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