How many people out there stammer at times ?!

How many people out there stammer at times ?

with me it jus happens .One moment am talking perfectly the next words fail to come out of my mouth.
N i have never heard/seen a female stammer ? r they any females who stammer

Yeah, females can have this problem, though not as many as males. Understanding and helping stammering is very tricky. It usually begins very early in life, so probably is connected to the development of the physical-neurological side of speaking (and boys' brains and girls' brains develop slightly differently and at slightly different rates). But because it is usually embarrassing and stressful to everybody, a psychological factor quickly begins to operate as well. This can then be the main reason for stammering becoming longterm. So everybody's stammering might have a similar cause to begin with, but what happens after that depends on circumstances. Stammering is not a disease, the severity of stammering varies greatly from individual to individual and there is no one particular type of person who stammers. There is usually no progression from slight to severe stammering over a lifetime. More often the opposite.

Also, as you have experienced, the occurrence of stammering is not consistent. Some stammerers can speak fluently out loud when nobody is around, or if they sing the words, or act them with a foreign accent, or shout them etc etc.

There is no such thing, however, as happy stammering. It is experienced as very unpleasant and exhausting. Once the psychological factors become the main cause of it occurring they feedback in a loop, so stammering keeps recurring. Stammering then becomes like fighting yourself. There is a lot of fear and anxiety and shame goes with it, which by themselves would make it difficult for anyone to speak perfectly, even without having a stammer beforehand! For young people, they can see themselves as freaks and become desperate.

There are no medications which cure stammer, or even reduce it. The best treatments are behavioural-psychological. One example is what is called Smooth Speech. This trains the sufferer to substitute a way of breathing and forming words while they are speaking, for the problem way, which has become like a bad habit. In other words, to replace a bad speaking habit with a good one.

Lifestyle changes can also help. For example, learning to reduce stress and anxiety through yoga, which has the important advantage of working on your psychological state through the body. Properly-done martial arts is similar. Stammering can also reduce with age, or with important life experiences such as having a great and loving sexual relationship, getting married, etc etc.

People communicate in other ways than by speaking. So it can be a very satisfying and balancing experience to communicate through handicrafts or painting, music etc etc.

Famous stammerers include Lewis Carrol, Charles Darwin, Marylin Monroe, Napoleon, Isaac Newton, Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.

http://www.stammering.org/bsrp.html...

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