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.
