Stop Stuttering Secrets - 3 Things You Must Do To Stop Stuttering

Stuttering, in my opinion, is directly related to your confidence and stress level. You need to learn how to keep yourself calm at all times. One can get into a vicious cycle of stuttering and losing confidence repeatedly until a time comes when you can't speak at all.

The first thing you need to do, is realise/understand what stuttering is, and why it 'is' there. In short, it's an overload of electric pulses sent to the speech area of your brain, which makes it 'short circuit'. To solve this problem, alot of stutterers will develop their own 'cures'. Mine for example was saying 'euhm' or 'nevermind'. Don't try to catch yourself on saying these stopwords and punishing yourself for them, just accept them, take a breath and move on.

Another note on practicing, explain to your friends, family etc. that you stutter, why you stutter and the most important part: that they should let you finish your sentences even if you do stutter. Often times stutterers will stay quiet because of their stutter, in fear of annoying people or coming across as an idiot, instead of speaking more which is the only cure for it. My dad used to finish my sentences for me when I stuttered, but he got a burner from my therapist. Talking and applying the technique explained above also helps with the self-confidence, self-sufficiency issue of the problem. The more you can apply it, and notice yourself improving, the more comfortable you'll be with talking etc. It's an upward spiral in that sense.