Stuttering brain - stop talking to me!

During those frustating eighteen years when I had a stutter I often wondered if the real problem lay in the form of my brain. Why? Well it was if my brain was in some way faulty - it would make me think in such a negative way and would try and convince me that I would stutter on virtually every word that I spoke. It made me feel like I was a failure and it tried to make out that my speech was even worse than it was in reality.

This brain would not let me have a minutes rest and I often suffered from headaches. If only I could change the way my brain worked then I could then possibly start to talk fluently. I was convinced that it was not just my speech that was faulty but that my brain was also damaged in some way.

The voices in my head would always be on my back, a thorn in my side. It was especially problematic when I was trying to fall asleep at night. The voices or demons would then come out in force which would often result in a lack of sleep.

This is why I found the whole life as a person who has a stutter as extremely frustrating. There was absolutely no way that I was going to accept living in this way - there had to be a solution for stuttering, I just had to find it.

The rest, as they say, is history.

Steve Hill   http://www.stutter-stuttering.com   http://www.stammering-stuttering.co.uk