How I Attempted To Overcome A Stutter That Had Affected My Life For Eighteen Years
Posted: Saturday, January 12, 2008
by Steve Hill
Stuttering therapy
In this article I am going to be writing about my quest to find a cure for stuttering. I had developed a stutter when I was just four years of age and the problem continued to affect my life for the next eighteen years. In my early twenties I had had enough of living life with a fear of talking and decided that the time had come to attempt to overcome the stutter. As strange as it may sound, I took heart from the fact that I was able to speak when I was under the influence of alcohol (drunk), I could also speak when I was singing and when I was shouting. I thought to myself that if I can talk in these situations that there was no reason why I should not be able to talk in all situations.
I had attempted various forms of stuttering therapy but had found little benefit from any of them, perhaps this was my bad attitude or maybe it was the standard of treatment that I was receiving. In my opinion stuttering is a very complex subject and unless you have had the problem yourself, it would be very difficult to understand just what it is like to have this form of speech impediment.
My self-confidence had been eroded because of my inability to speak fluently and I believed that if I could some how find a way to increase my overall self-esteem that I would have a chance to eradicate the stutter. When I was drunk my confidence would be on a high, I knew that I could not be intoxicated on a permanent basis however.
It was a long road but a road that did eventually lead to fluency. I am now thirty-four years of age, I am fluent and I now do not drink any alcohol whatsoever.
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