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Fluency Disorder-Mental Health — 3 Comments

  1. Its main effect on my mental health has come in the form of “avoidance”. Believing that stuttering is not acceptable to me or anyone else and choosing to avoid situations where I believe I will lose control over my speech. When that happens it is like driving a knife into my self esteem. In some situations that need to avoid the situation has invoked feelings of panic if speaking in that situation cannot be avoided or escaped. Stuttering is in the main a mental health issue but is seen as a speech issue and in that regard it is not always best treated by and SLP.

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