So, I have a speech impediment. I have a stutter. Usually it's super mild and I can go days without it coming up, but other times it gets so bad that I can't even get a noise out at all and I'm pretty much non-verbal for a while.
I'm also highly sociable and highly extroverted, and going a while without verbally talking to people makes it worse, and then I don't want to talk to people because I know it's going to be a struggle to get anything coherent out.
I also get this if it's just someone I haven't verbally spoken to in a while. It doesn't seem to be so bad with people that I've met face-to-face in person, even though it does still happen with them, but when it comes to people that I've only ever spoken to online it gets really bad.
I know that I'm not going to manage to get words out and just the idea of it makes me feel like I can't breathe. And then because of that I just don't even try anymore. And then still not talking to them makes it all worse and it's like a vicious cycle.
Does anybody on here experience anything similar, or even have any advice on how I can try to fix this?
Please note that therapy isn't an option as I'm in a country that I don't speak the language of and I can't afford to go to an English language therapist,
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